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Institute of Brain Pathology
In 1944, the Directorate for the State Mental Hospitals in Denmark initiated the establishment of an institute for brain pathology. The institute was to be in charge of the post-mortem examination of brains from patients who died in the State Mental Hospitals. The newly established Insitute of Brain Pathology opened 1st April 1945.
- The Institue of Brain Pathology was a centralised facility for the psychiatric hospitals in Denmark.
- Furthermore, the institute was a general pathological unit for the Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus.
- Brains from patients who died in any of the psychiatric hospitals were pathologically diagnosed and scientifically examined upon request from the hospitals.
- The institute carried out both light and electron microscopial examinations. Furthermore, the institute had facilities for experimental animal studies.
The masterminds of the Institute of Brain Pathology
- Erik R. V. Strömgren (1909 - 1993). Professor of psychiatry (1945 - 1980)
- Lárus Einarson (1902 - 1969). Professor of anatomy (1936 - 1969)
The architects behind the Institute of Brain Pathology we the founders of the Institute of Anatomy and Institute of Psychiatry at the University of Aarhus, Lárus Einarson og Erik Strömgren.
- Knud Aage Lorentzen's and Erik Andreasen's textbook of neuroanatomy, 1961 (Munksgaards Forlag)
- Knud Aage Lorentzen (1912 - 1983). Head of the Institute of Brain Pathology(1950 - 1982). Consultant, associate professor of anatomy and pathological anatomy
During tha majority of its lifetime, the Institute of Brain Pathology was headed by Knud Aage Lorentzen, DrMedSc, who trained a generation of doctors in anatomy.
