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Max Fink
Researcher at Stony Brook University
Publications - 462
Citations - 15516
Max Fink is an academic researcher from Stony Brook University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Electroconvulsive therapy & Catatonia. The author has an hindex of 60, co-authored 457 publications receiving 14627 citations. Previous affiliations of Max Fink include Long Island Jewish Medical Center & Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Catatonia. I. Rating scale and standardized examination.
TL;DR: It is concluded that catatonia is a distinct, moderately prevalent neuropsychiatric syndrome and the rating scale and screening instrument are reliable and valid.
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Catatonia in Psychiatric Classification: A Home of Its Own
Michael Alan Taylor,Max Fink +1 more
TL;DR: These findings, which are consistent with established methods of defining distinct diagnostic groupings, support consideration of catatonia as an individual category in psychiatric diagnostic systems.
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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,Mustafa M. Husain,Keith G. Rasmussen,Martina Mueller,Hilary J. Bernstein,Kevin C. O’Connor,Glenn E. Smith,Melanie M. Biggs,Samuel H. Bailine,Chitra Malur,Eunsil Yim,Shawn M. McClintock,Shirlene Sampson,Max Fink +16 more
TL;DR: Both C-ECT and C-Pharm were shown to be superior to a historical placebo control, but both had limited efficacy, with more than half of patients either experiencing disease relapse or dropping out of the study.
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ECT remission rates in psychotic versus nonpsychotic depressed patients: a report from CORE.
Georgios Petrides,Max Fink,Mustafa M. Husain,Rebecca G. Knapp,A. John Rush,Martina Mueller,Teresa A. Rummans,Kevin O'Connor,Keith G. Rasmussen,Hilary J. Bernstein,Melanie M. Biggs,Samuel H. Bailine,Charles H. Kellner +12 more
TL;DR: Bilateral ECT is effective in relieving severe major depression andRemission rates are higher and occur earlier in psychotic depressed patients than in nonpsychotic depressed patients, supporting the argument that psychotic depression is a distinguishable nosological entity that warrants separate treatment algorithms.
Book
Convulsive therapy : theory and practice
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