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Max Fink (née Maximilian) ( born January 16, 1923) is an American neurologist and psychiatrist best known for his work on ECT (electroconvulsive therapy). His early work also included studies on the effect of psychoactive drugs on brain electrical activity; more recently he has written about the syndromes of catatonia and melancholia. ==Education, family, and qualifications== Fink was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1923.〔P Munk-Jorgensen 2005 Biography: Max Fink, MD. ''Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica'' 112: 325.〕 His parents were a physician and a social worker.〔 The family left Austria for the United States in 1924.〔A Kaplan 2005 Through the Times with Max Fink, M.D. ''Psychiatric Times.'' 22, September.〕 He married Martha Pearl Gross, Barnard College, class of 1949.〔 They have three children, each an academic professor: Jonathan, geology, at Portland State University; Rachel at Mount Holyoke College, and Linda at Sweet Briar College.〔 He has one brother who is a physician graduate of Columbia University. His early education was in New York City, receiving the B.A. at University College, New York University (1942) and M.D. at NYU Bellevue Medical Center (1945). His medical training was under the United States Army auspices and he was appointed 1st Lieutenant Army Medical Corps on graduation, serving in active military service from April 1946 to November 1947. He attended the Army School of Military Neuropsychiatry in San Antonio in 1946.〔http://medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu/psychiatry/faculty/fink_m.〕 Residency training in neurology and psychiatry from 1948 to 1954 was at New York's Montefiore, Bellevue, and Hillside Hospitals. He received training in electroencephalography at Mount Sinai Hospital under a fellowship of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Concurrently he attended the William Alanson White Institute of Psychoanalysis, receiving the Certificate for Physicians in 1953. He was board certified in neurology in 1952 and psychiatry in 1954.〔http://medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu/psychiatry/faculty/fink_m.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Fink」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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