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Max Fink is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a specialization in Psychiatry and Mental Health. Other notable subfields include Pharmacology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Neurology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's main research topics cover a range of areas within mental health and related treatments. These topics include:

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Associated Phenomena
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments

Max Fink has contributed to several recent papers which address various aspects of catatonia, mental health assessment, and descriptive prevalence studies. Selected publications include:

  • "Expanding the Catatonia Tent," 2020, Journal of Ect
  • "The psychological and subjective experience of catatonia: a qualitative study," 2022, BMC Psychology
  • "Assessment of catatonia and inter-rater reliability of three instruments: a descriptive study," 2021, International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  • "A prospective descriptive study on prevalence of catatonia and correlates in an acute mental health unit in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "Protocol for a prospective descriptive prevalence study of catatonia in an acute mental health unit in urban South Africa," 2020, BMJ Open

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Ect
  • Research Square
  • BMC Psychology
  • International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  • PLoS ONE

Max Fink collaborates regularly with several coauthors. The most frequent collaborators include:

  • Louise Stroud
  • Johan Cronje
  • Stephan van Wyk
  • Zukiswa Zingela
  • Z. Zingela

Best Publications

  • Catatonia. I. Rating scale and standardized examination.

    George Bush;M. Fink;G. Petrides;F. Dowling

  • Catatonia in Psychiatric Classification: A Home of Its Own

    Michael Alan Taylor;Max Fink

  • ECT remission rates in psychotic versus nonpsychotic depressed patients: a report from CORE.

    Georgios Petrides;Max Fink;Mustafa M. Husain;Rebecca G. Knapp

  • Continuation Electroconvulsive Therapy vs Pharmacotherapy for Relapse Prevention in Major Depression: A Multisite Study From the Consortium for Research in Electroconvulsive Therapy (CORE)

    Charles H. Kellner;Rebecca G. Knapp;Georgios Petrides;Teresa A. Rummans

  • Catatonia. II. Treatment with lorazepam and electroconvulsive therapy.

    George Bush;M. Fink;G. Petrides;F. Dowling

  • PSYCHIATRIC REACTION PATTERNS TO IMIPRAMINE

    Donald F. Klein;Max Fink

  • Speed of response and remission in major depressive disorder with acute electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): a Consortium for Research in ECT (CORE) report.

    Mustafa M. Husain;A. John Rush;Max Fink;Rebecca Knapp

  • Convulsive therapy : theory and practice

    Max Fink

  • Bifrontal, bitemporal and right unilateral electrode placement in ECT: randomised trial.

    Charles H. Kellner;Rebecca Knapp;Mustafa M. Husain;Keith Rasmussen

  • Relief of expressed suicidal intent by ECT: a consortium for research in ECT study

    Charles H. Kellner;Max Fink;Rebecca Knapp;Georgios Petrides

  • Catatonia: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

    Max Fink;Michael Alan Taylor

  • Neuropeptide concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid of depressed patients treated with electroconvulsive therapy : corticotrophin-releasing factor, β-endorphin and somatostatin

    Charles B. Nemeroff;Garth Bissette;Huda Akil;Max Fink

  • Convulsive therapy: a review of the first 55 years.

    Max Fink

  • The Influence of Age on the Response of Major Depression to Electroconvulsive Therapy: A C.O.R.E. Report

    M. Kevin O'Connor;Rebecca Knapp;Mustafa Husain;Teresa A. Rummans

  • The catatonia syndrome: forgotten but not gone.

    Max Fink;Michael Alan Taylor

  • Issues for DSM-5: whither melancholia? The case for its classification as a distinct mood disorder.

    Gordon Parker;Max Fink;Edward Shorter;Michael Alan Taylor

  • Catatonia Is not Schizophrenia: Kraepelin's Error and the Need to Recognize Catatonia as an Independent Syndrome in Medical Nomenclature

    Max Fink;Edward Shorter;Michael A. Taylor

  • EEG and human psychopharmacology

    Max Fink

  • Rediscovering catatonia: the biography of a treatable syndrome.

    Max Fink

  • The many varieties of catatonia

    Max Fink;Michael A. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Volavka
Jan Volavka New York University
Donald F. Klein
Donald F. Klein New York University
Glenn E. Smith
Glenn E. Smith University of Florida
Kevin C. O’Connor
Kevin C. O’Connor Yale University
Melanie M. Biggs
Melanie M. Biggs The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Shawn M. McClintock
Shawn M. McClintock The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
A. John Rush
A. John Rush Duke University
Robert A. Levine
Robert A. Levine Harvard University
Harold A. Sackeim
Harold A. Sackeim Columbia University
Gordon Parker
Gordon Parker University of New South Wales

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