John Krakauer

John Krakauer is an American neurologist and neuroscientist. He is the director of the Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, and John C. Malone Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a co-founder of the KATA project at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and head of Vision for MindMaze. His areas of interest range from motor learning, motor control, and stroke to bioethics. From 2003 until 2010, he was the codirector of the Motor Performance Laboratory at the Neurological Institute of Columbia University.

Krakauer received his bachelor's degree at Trinity College of Cambridge University. He completed the Osler internship at Johns Hopkins University and both his neurology residency and neurovascular fellowship at Columbia University.

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