Dr. John Krakauer

Dr. John Krakauer is a Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Krakauer's clinical interest is stroke, including ischemic cerebrovascular disease, subarachnoid and intracerebral hemorrhage, arteriovenous malformation, cerebral vasculitis, cerebral aneurysm, and venous and sinus thrombosis. He received his bachelor's and master's degree from Cambridge University, and his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. After completing an internship in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, he returned to Columbia University for his residency in Neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York. He subsequently completed a research fellowship in motor control in the Center of Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia and a clinical fellowship in stroke at the Neurological Institute at Columbia University Medical Center. Videos I Am Dolphin The Johns Hopkins Hospital Comprehensive Stroke Center Recent News Articles and Media Coverage Helping Hand: Robots, video games, and a radical new approach to treating stroke patients. New Yorker (11/23/15) Watch: How stroke patients can rewire their brains, STAT (11/13/2015) Hopkins' new video game may pave way for stroke therapy, Baltimore Sun (10/15/2014) “I Am Dolphin”: where dolphins, gaming and neuroscience meet, Washington Post (10/10/2014) Could a video game be the key to stroke recovery? National Geographic (9/30/2014) Becoming the Dolphin, Health Canal (08/10/2014) Research On Video Games And Mental Health, NPR's Diane Rehm Show (11/27/2013).

Dr. Krakauer is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Stroke, Primary Lateral Sclerosis, Spasticity, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease), and Gastrostomy.

He is actively involved in clinical research, co-authoring 121 peer reviewed articles.