Human brains aren't as plastic as you might think
The idea of treating neurological disorders by marshaling vast unused neural reserves is more wishful thinking than reality.
John Krakauer
Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and co-director of the Brain, Learning, Adaptation, and Movement (BLAM) Lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
John Krakauer is John C. Malone Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and co-director of the Brain, Learning, Adaptation, and Movement (BLAM) Lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a visiting scholar at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown. Krakauer is chief medical director at MindMaze. 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 neurorehabilitation approaches for people in the first months after stroke; (6) the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of neuroscience.
