Andrej Kral studied medicine at the Comenius University, Bratislava (MD 1993, PhD 1998) and has been working on neuroscience of cochlear implants, brain development and plasticity in deafness. He was appointed associate professor of physiology at JW Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (2002), Professor of Neurophysiology at the University of Hamburg (2004) and a Chair of Auditory Neuroscience at the Medical University Hannover (2009). Since 2004 he has been Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience and Cognition at The University of Texas at Dallas, USA.
Latest Contribution
Plasticity with cochlear implants: individual factors in the outcomes
Andrej Kral gives us an overview of neuronal plasticity in congenital hearing loss, and discusses why it is core to our clinical interventions in hearing loss and rehabilitation. The brain is born immature and undergoes extensive shaping during early development....
The Brain’s Connectome – a symphony inside our brains and how hearing loss disturbs the music
Understand us; where do we begin? In this article the authors’ introduce a project that may uncover that our personalities and traits are a product of the interconnected wiring within our brain. The team discusses the Human Connectome Project and...
