title: [Neurology--a specialty with own criminal novels. Neurological topics in Norwegian criminal literature].
abstract: The authors of a large number of Norwegian detective stories, particularly from the first part of this century, are occupied with neurologists and neurobiological problems. A survey of this literature shows. One Norwegian neurologist has written four detective stories. Not one single neurologist can be found as a detective hero. On the other hand there are numerous examples of the neurologist as a criminal or even a murderer. Neurological symptoms and signs (mostly functional pareses and epileptic fits) are used to construct the plot in other novels. The most striking finding is a detective story where the criminal is a neurobiologist, the plot is based on neurobiology and the author discusses neurological phenomena throughout the entire book.
authors.affiliation: Nevrologisk avdeling, Ullevål sykehus, Oslo.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stien
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime; D005197:Famous Persons; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D009462:Neurology; D009664:Norway
vernacular_title: Nevrologi--spesialiteten med egen kriminalroman. Neurologiske poenger i norsk kriminallitteratur.