[Monrad-Krohn: a norwegian neurologist].

ABSTRACT

Monrad-Krohn was born in Bergen and is a representative of Scandinavian neurologists. From 1912 to 1917, he studied clinical neurology in Paris and London. During his stay there, he was intensely influenced by several eminent neurologists, such as Dejerine, Marie, Babinski, Souques, Horsley, Stewart, and Wilson. He fulfilled his duties as a professor of neurology at the University of Oslo (Rikshospitalet) for four decades. One of his students, Sigvald Bernhard Refsum, succeeded him in 1959. Monrad-Krohn was interested in reflexology, language, and facial innervation. A peculiar phenomenon, paradoxical emotional hypermimia, is known as the Monrad-Krohn sign. He also coined the word dysprosody as a definite neurological sign. His masterpiece "The Clinical Examination of the Nervous System" made him world famous. It had a great reputation as an outstanding textbook of neurological examination, was translated into many languages, and went through several editions.