Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room 3310

Title:  The post-stroke arm paresis phenotype and what to do to make it better: training, plasticity, recovery. 

Abstract: Arm paresis after stroke is a very common neurologically acquired disorder. It provides insights into the assembly of normal motor control and into how the nervous system can recover – either spontaneously or with specific forms of training and/or physiological intervention. I will discuss novel approaches to neurorehabilitation and new ways to think about how recovery is occurring within the CNS.

Bio: Dr. Krakauer is currently John C. Malone Professor, Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Director of the Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement Lab (www.BLAM-lab.org) 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 Centre for the Unknown. He is Chief Medical Advisor to 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 neuro-rehabilitation approaches for patients in the first 3 months after stroke.(6) Philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience.