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Max L. Stek is affiliated with Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Their research focuses predominantly on medicine, with a strong emphasis on psychiatry and mental health. Other subfields covered in their work include pharmacology, clinical psychology, general health professions, and neurology.

The main topics of Stek's research span several areas, including:

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare

Stek has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in several key scientific journals. These venues include:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • BMC Geriatrics
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • International Psychogeriatrics
  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Stek cover a range of topics related to mental health and aging, with publication years from 2020 to 2022. Selected works include:

  • Loneliness, social network size and mortality in older adults: a meta-analysis, 2022, European Journal of Ageing
  • Structural changes induced by electroconvulsive therapy are associated with clinical outcome, 2020, Brain Stimulation
  • Effectiveness of Pharmacological Interventions for Symptoms of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia: A Systematic Review, 2020, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
  • Cognitive performance in older-age bipolar disorder: Investigating psychiatric characteristics, cardiovascular burden and psychotropic medication, 2021, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Stability and transition of depression subtypes in late life, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders

Stek collaborates extensively with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Annemiek Dols
  • Didi Rhebergen
  • Pascal Sienaert
  • Filip Bouckaert
  • Mardien L. Oudega

Best Publications

  • Feelings of loneliness, but not social isolation, predict dementia onset: results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL)

    Tjalling Jan Holwerda;Dorly J H Deeg;Aartjan T F Beekman;Theo G van Tilburg

  • Temporal relation between depression and cognitive impairment in old age: prospective population based study

    David J Vinkers;Jacobijn Gussekloo;Max L Stek;Rudi G J Westendorp

  • Increased risk of mortality associated with social isolation in older men: only when feeling lonely? Results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL)

    Tjalling J. Holwerda;Aartjan T. F. Beekman;Dorly J. H. Deeg;Max L Stek

  • Inflammation and interleukin-1 signaling network contribute to depressive symptoms but not cognitive decline in old age.

    Anita H.J. van den Biggelaar;Jacobijn Gussekloo;Anton J.M. de Craen;Marijke Frölich

  • Prevalence, correlates and recognition of depression in the oldest old: the Leiden 85-plus study

    M.L. Stek;J. Gussekloo;A.T.F. Beekman;W. van Tilburg

  • Prevalence and risk-factors for depression in elderly Turkish and Moroccan migrants in the Netherlands.

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  • ECT: its brain enabling effects: a review of electroconvulsive therapy-induced structural brain plasticity.

    Filip Bouckaert;Pascal Sienaert;Jasmien Obbels;Annemieke Dols

  • Volume of the human Hippocampus and clinical response following Electroconvulsive Therapy

    Leif Oltedal;Katherine L. Narr;Christopher Abbott;Amit Anand

  • The Netherlands study of depression in older persons (NESDO); a prospective cohort study

    Hannie C. Comijs;Harm W. Van Marwijk;Roos C. Van Der Mast;Paul Naarding

  • Impact of loneliness and depression on mortality: results from the Longitudinal Ageing Study Amsterdam.

    Tjalling J. Holwerda;Theo G. van Tilburg;Dorly J. H. Deeg;Natasja Schutter

  • Is Depression in Old Age Fatal Only When People Feel Lonely

    Max L. Stek;David J. Vinkers;Jacobijn Gussekloo;Aartjan T.F. Beekman

  • Big Five personality and depression diagnosis, severity and age of onset in older adults

    A.M.L. Koorevaar;H.C. Comijs;A.D.F. Dhondt;H.W.J. van Marwijk

  • The two-year course of late-life depression; results from the Netherlands study of depression in older persons.

    Hannie C Comijs;Jasper Nieuwesteeg;Rob Kok;Harm W van Marwijk

  • Childhood abuse in late-life depression

    Hannie C Comijs;Eric van Exel;Roos C van der Mast;Anna Paauw

  • Onset of Anxiety and Depression in the Aging Population: Comparison of Risk Factors in a 9-Year Prospective Study

    Dagmar Vink;Marja J. Aartsen;Hannie C. Comijs;Martijn W. Heymans;Martijn W. Heymans

  • Prognostic significance of social network, social support and loneliness for course of major depressive disorder in adulthood and old age

    R H S van den Brink;N Schutter;D J C Hanssen;B M Elzinga

  • Neurocognitive effects after brief pulse and ultrabrief pulse unilateral electroconvulsive therapy for major depression: a review.

    Esmée Verwijk;Hannie C. Comijs;Hannie C. Comijs;Rob M. Kok;Harm Pieter Spaans

  • The 15‐item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS‐15) detects changes in depressive symptoms after a major negative life event. The Leiden 85‐plus Study

    David J. Vinkers;Jacobijn Gussekloo;Max L. Stek;Rudi G. J. Westendorp

  • Grey matter volume increase following electroconvulsive therapy in patients with late life depression: a longitudinal MRI study.

    Filip Bouckaert;François-Laurent De Winter;Louise Emsell;Annemieke Dols

  • Schizophrenia spectrum disorders in later life: prevalence and distribution of age at onset and sex in a dutch catchment area.

    Paul D. Meesters;Lieuwe de Haan;Hannie C. Comijs;Max L. Stek

  • Natural history of depression in the oldest old: population-based prospective study.

    Max L. Stek;David J. Vinkers;Jacobijn Gussekloo;Roos C. Van Der Mast

  • Speed of remission in elderly patients with depression: electroconvulsive therapy v. medication

    Harm Pieter Spaans;Pascal Sienaert;Filip Bouckaert;Julia F. Van Den Berg

  • Cognitive impairment in early and late bipolar disorder.

    Sigfried N.T.M. Schouws;Hannie C. Comijs;Max L. Stek;Jack Dekker

  • A Review of Pain Prevalence in Alzheimer's, Vascular, Frontotemporal and Lewy Body Dementias

    Janine van Kooten;Tarik T. Binnekade;Johannes C. van der Wouden;Max L. Stek

  • Vascular factors and markers of inflammation in offspring with a parental history of late-onset Alzheimer disease.

    Eric van Exel;Piet Eikelenboom;Hannie Comijs;Marijke Frölich

  • The center for epidemiological studies depression scale (CES‐D) is an adequate screening instrument for depressive and anxiety disorders in a very old population living in residential homes

    Els Dozeman;Digna J. F. van Schaik;Harm W. J. van Marwijk;Max L. Stek

  • Relationship Between Hippocampal Volume, Serum BDNF, and Depression Severity Following Electroconvulsive Therapy in Late-Life Depression.

    Filip Bouckaert;Annemiek Dols;Louise Emsell;François-Laurent De Winter

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannie C. Comijs
Hannie C. Comijs VU University Medical Center
Frederik Barkhof
Frederik Barkhof University College London
Niels D. Prins
Niels D. Prins Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Richard C. Oude Voshaar
Richard C. Oude Voshaar University Medical Center Groningen
Harm W.J. van Marwijk
Harm W.J. van Marwijk Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Mike P. Wattjes
Mike P. Wattjes Hannover Medical School
Erik J. A. Scherder
Erik J. A. Scherder Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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