John W. Krakauer

Head of Vision, MindMaze SA

Co-Director of BLAM Lab

John C. Malone Professor

Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, & Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

External Professor, The Santa Fe Institute

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Contact Information

The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
Pathology Bldg, Room 210
600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287
410-955-9320 (p)
410-614-1746 (f)
jkrakau1@jhmi.edu

Biography

Dr. Krakauer is currently John C. Malone Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Director of the Brain, Learning, Adaptation, and Movement Lab (www.BLAM-lab.org) at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of research interest are:

(1) Experimental and computational studies of motor control and motor learning in humans
(2) Tracking long-term motor skill learning and its relation to higher cognitive processes such as decision-making.
(3) Prediction of motor recovery after stroke
(4) Mechanisms of spontaneous motor recovery after stroke in humans and in mouse models
(5) New neuro-rehabilitation approaches for patients in the first 3 months after stroke.

Dr. Krakauer is also the Head of Vision for MindMaze SA, a Swiss unicorn startup pioneering digital neurotherapeutics. He has been a strong advocate for the MindMotion GO therapeutic program (now used by the Johns Hopkins Hospital), as well as leading the success of the MindPod with over $100,000 in total gross sales globally by the end of 2022.

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