caption fields workplaces name birth_date known_for image article_title academic_advisors citizenship alma_mater
john w. krakauer neurologist and neuroscientist johns hopkins university john w. krakauer 14 april 1967 motor recovery control and motor learning in stroke and stroke krakauer_john . jpg john krakauer
 claude ghez , eric kandel american trinity and surgeons college , cambridge columbia university college of physicians
john krakauer

john krakauer -lrb- born april 14 , 1967 -rrb- is a neurologist , neuroscientist and academic .
he is currently a professor of neurology and neuroscience , the director of the center for the study of motor learning and brain repair , the director of brain , learning , animation , and movement lab -lrb- blam -rrb- , at johns hopkins university , and the co-founder of the kata project .
his areas of interest range from motor learning and 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 .
he received his bachelor degree at trinity college of cambridge university , but his advanced education and extended work have been in the united states , primarily associated with columbia .
