John Charnley McKinley (November 8, 1891 - January 3, 1950) was an American

neurologist Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the ...

who co-authored the psychological assessment known as the

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a standardized psychometric test of adult personality and psychopathology. A version for adolescents also exists, the MMPI-A, and was first published in 1992. Psychologists and other ment ...

(MMPI). He was educated at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

, where he spent almost all of his academic career.

Biography

McKinley was born on November 8, 1891, in

Duluth, Minnesota Duluth ( ) is a Port, port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County, Minnesota, St. Louis County. Located on Lake Superior in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region, the city is a hub for cargo shipping. The population ...

. Throughout his education and his career in academia, he spent almost all of that time at the University of Minnesota. He graduated from medical school there in 1919 and later earned a PhD. He was the university's first full-time faculty member who specialized in neurology.Dyken, Mark L
''Giants of Neurology''
. Prepared for and partially presented at the ABPN 75th Anniversary Celebration on September 26, 2009. p.15.

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. (ABPN) is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1934 following conferences of committees appointed by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Neurological Association, and the t ...

. In 1928, McKinley received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

to study medicine at the University of Breslau in Germany. Spending a year in Germany, he used

electromyography Electromyography (EMG) is a technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles. EMG is performed using an instrument called an electromyograph to produce a record called an electromyogram. An electromyo ...

to quantitatively study human muscle tonus in human subjects. With his Minnesota colleague Starke R. Hathaway, he created the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), which was first published in 1943. Originally, Hathaway and McKinley intended that the test would detect the personality characteristics associated with psychiatric disability. However, the test has also been widely employed with normal populations as well. McKinley suffered a stroke in 1946. He died on January 3, 1950.

Works

The Intraneural Plexus of Fasciculi and Fibers in the Sciatic Nerve
''Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry''. October 1921. Vol. 6. pp. 377–399.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McKinley, J.C. American neurologists 1891 births 1950 deaths University of Minnesota people

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