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

neurologist Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "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 brain, the spinal c ...

who co-authored the psychological assessment known as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). He was educated at the

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, where he spent almost all of his academic career.

Biography

McKinley was born on November 8, 1891 in

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. 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 that was founded in 1934 following conferences of committees appointed by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Neurological Association, a ...

. In 1928, McKinley received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study medicine at the

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in Germany. Spending a year in Germany, he used electromyography 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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