He has received many prize awards for his research in ECT and in EEG, including the Electroshock Research Award (1956), the A.E. In 1999, he published the trade book ELECTROSHOCK: Restoring the Mind (Oxford University Press, NY) that was re-issued in paperback in 2002. In 1995-1996, he chaired the Task Force on Ambulatory ECT of the Association for Convulsive Therapy. From 1975 to 1978, and again from 1987 to 1990, he was a member of the Task Forces on Electroconvulsive Therapy of the American Psychiatric Association. In 1984, he established CONVULSIVE THERAPY, a quarterly scientific journal, published by Raven Press (renamed Journal of ECT). In 1979, he published the textbook Convulsive Therapy: Theory and Practice (Raven Press, 306 pp.). Seymour Kety and James McGaugh, he organized an NIMH sponsored conference on the biology of convulsive therapy which resulted in the volume Psychobiology of Convulsive Therapy (1974). His studies of ECT began at Hillside Hospital in 1952, and he has published broadly on predictors of outcome in ECT, effects of seizures on EEG and speech, hypotheses of the mode of action, and how to achieve an effective treatment. Between 19 he has also been on the faculty at AECOM and the LIJ-Hillside Medical Center. He was appointed Research Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University in 1962, and then at New York Medical College (1966 to 1972), and since 1972 at SUNY at Stony Brook, where he is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus. He served as a medical officer in the US Army, 1946-47. from New York University College of Medicine in 1945. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1964.Ĭonvulsive therapy (electroshock): Mechanisms of Action Ethicsĭr. A Selected Bibliography of ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY IN HUMAN PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publ Co, vol 28: Progress iněrain Research, 1968.įink M. (Eds): ANTICHOLINERGIC DRUGS AND BRAIN FUNCTIONS IN ANIMALS AND MAN. New York: Raven Press, 1977.īradley PB, Fink M. (Eds.): HASHISH: Studies of Long-Term Use. CATATONIA: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment.Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.įink M. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2004.įink M and Taylor MA. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. MELANCHOLIA: The Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment of Depressive Illness. ENDOCRINE PSYCHIATRY: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia. THE MADNESS OF FEAR: A History of Catatonia. Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1997 - 2005 Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, SUNY at Stony Brook 1972-1997 Professor of Psychiatry, New York Medical College, 1966-1972. (Director, Missouri Institute of Psychiatry). Research Professor, Washington University, St Louis, 1962-1966 Sinai Hospital (New York), 1953.Ĭertified in Neurology, American Board of Neurology & Psychiatry, 1952Ĭertified in Psychiatry, American Board of Neurology & Psychiatry, 1954 Certificate in Psychoanalysis, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, 1953ĭirector, Division of Experimental Psychiatry, Hillside Hospital, 1954-1962. Psychiatric Hospital (1948-1951) Hillside Hospital (now LIJ Hillside Residency training at Montefiore Hospital (1946-1947), Bellevue New York University College of Medicine, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus
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