Background
His son, the computer engineer and entrepreneur Lars Monrad-Krohn was born in 1933.
neurologist physician professor
His son, the computer engineer and entrepreneur Lars Monrad-Krohn was born in 1933.
He studied at the National Hospital, Queens Square in London, and often visited Paris, France to work in the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital facilities.
In 1917 he returned to Norway, and began studies at the Neurological University Clinic of Oslo (Rikshospitalet), where he was appointed a Professor in 1922. In 1927 he became Professor of Neurology at the University of Oslo, and later Emeritus Professor of Neurology. He retired from this professorial chair at the age of 70.
Monrad-Krohn died in 1964 after a long career in what both he and Acta Neurologica Scandinavica termed "the struggle for neurology".
Monrad-Krohn was interested in various language disorders, in particular dysprosody, and he introduced the term aprosody to that field He wrote a book entitled "The Clinical Examination of the Nervous System", of which seven editions were reproduced as texts to be read in the study of the area.
These are now considered antiquarian, and are collectors" items. He was also particularly interested in reflexes.
His 1918 thesis was based on observations of abdominal reflexes.
In 1922 he undertook a major study of facial reflexes in patients with leprosy, and the paralysis displayed by them. The facial mimicry displayed by them despite their paralysis, termed "paradoxical emotional hypermimia" was given the name "Monrad-Krohn Sign". Michael Skjelderup Gold Medal 1910 Norwegian Neurological Association, Chairman 1921-1931 Public Health Association, Chairman 1925-1931 The Norwegian Academy of Science, elected 1929 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in the United Kingdom Honorary doctorate at the University of Gothenburg 1954 The representative of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo since 1945.
Member of the neurological companies in France, Denmark and Estonia, et cetera Honorary member of the Norwegian Neurological Association, Svenska läkaresällskapet, American Academy of Neurology and the Société de Neuroscience de France.