Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair

Neurology

Doctor John W. Krakauer, MD practices Neurology. He studied medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons is a one of the best medicals schools. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons is ranked 8 in research and 52 in primary care medicine Doctor John W. Krakauer, MD is a published doctor. He published 51 publications, including: 'The basal ganglia: from motor commands to the control of vigor.'

Publications

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• Independence of Movement Preparation and Movement Initiation.
• Hedging Your Bets: Intermediate Movements as Optimal Behavior in the Context of an Incomplete Decision.
• The future of Stroke treatment: bringing evaluation of behavior back to Stroke neurology.
• MRI-guided selection of patients for treatment of acute ischemic Stroke.
• Motor Planning.
• Motor learning: the great rate debate.
• The interaction between training and plasticity in the poststroke Brain.
• Medial premotor cortex shows a reduction in inhibitory markers and mediates recovery in a mouse model of focal Stroke.
• Motor learning principles for neurorehabilitation.
• Model-based and model-free mechanisms of human motor learning.
• Improvement After Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy: Recovery of Normal Motor Control or Task-Specific Compensation?
• Are we ready for a natural history of motor learning?
• Human sensorimotor learning: adaptation, skill, and beyond.
• Neurological principles and rehabilitation of action disorders: common clinical deficits.
• Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models.
• Probing for hemispheric specialization for motor skill learning: a transcranial direct current stimulation study.
• Prediction of Motor Recovery Using Initial Impairment and fMRI 48 h PostStroke.
• Improvement in aphasia scores after Stroke is well predicted by initial severity.
• Compensatory motor control after Stroke: an alternative joint strategy for object-dependent shaping of hand posture.
• Learning not to generalize: modular adaptation of visuomotor gain.
• Losing control: Brain vs spinal cord.
• Error correction, sensory prediction, and adaptation in motor control.
• Adaptation to visuomotor rotation through interaction between posterior parietal and motor cortical areas.
• Early imaging correlates of subsequent motor recovery after Stroke.
• Learning of a sequential motor skill comprises explicit and implicit components that consolidate differently.
• Noninvasive cortical stimulation enhances motor skill acquisition over multiple days through an effect on consolidation.
• Motor learning and consolidation: the case of visuomotor rotation.
• Explaining savings for visuomotor adaptation: linear time-invariant state-space models are not sufficient.
• Consensus: "Can tDCS and TMS enhance motor learning and memory formation?"
• Consensus: Can transcranial direct current stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation enhance motor learning and memory formation?
• Inter-individual variability in the capacity for motor recovery after ischemic Stroke.
• Why don't we move faster? Parkinson's Disease, movement vigor, and implicit motivation.
• Sensory prediction errors drive cerebellum-dependent adaptation of reaching.
• Avoiding performance and task confounds: multimodal investigation of Brain reorganization after stroke rehabilitation.
• Hemodynamic impairment as a stimulus for functional Brain reorganization.
• Generalization of motor learning depends on the history of prior action.
• An optimization principle for determining movement duration.
• Multiple reversible episodes of subcortical ischemia following postcoital middle Cerebral artery dissection.
• An implicit plan overrides an explicit strategy during visuomotor adaptation.
• Patterns of impairment in digit independence after subcortical Stroke.
• Arm function after Stroke: from physiology to recovery.
• A new approach to spatial covariance modeling of functional Brain imaging data: ordinal trend analysis.
• Adaptation to visuomotor transformations: consolidation, interference, and forgetting.
• Hypoperfusion without Stroke alters motor activation in the opposite hemisphere.
• Differential cortical and subcortical activations in learning rotations and gains for reaching: a PET study.
• Functional imaging of motor recovery after Stroke: remaining challenges.
• Unlearning versus savings in visuomotor adaptation: comparing effects of washout, passage of time, and removal of errors on motor memory.
• A comparison of two methods for MRI classification of at-risk tissue and core infarction.
• Recent insights into perceptual and motor skill learning.
• The basal ganglia: from motor commands to the control of vigor.

Schools

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• Columbia University College of Physicians And Surgeons

Procedures Preformed

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• EEG (Electroencephalogram)

Conditions Treated

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• Alzheimer's Disease
• Bell's Palsy
• Brain Aneurysm
• Cerebral Artery Thrombosis
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Doctors Specialties

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• Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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• Blue Card PPO
• Blue Preferred PPO
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Geisinger Health Plan
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Tricare
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Options PPO

Education

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• New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Campus
• Johns Hopkins University
• Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Hospital

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• Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
• Johns Hopkins Hospital

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1922153667
Last Name Of The Provider	KRAKAUER
First Name Of The Provider	JOHN
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