Clinical Interests
Dr. Joseph Fink specializes in clinical neuropsychology.
Interests Include:
Medical neuropsychology
Traumatic brain injury
Neurocognitive sequelae of electrical trauma
Neuropsychological detection and characterization of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease
Lewy body disease, frontotemporal dementia
Investigation of various classes of memory disruption and their neural substrates
Research Interests
Cognitive and psychological effects of electrical injury (http://www.cetri.org)
Neuropsychological effects of Lupus
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Northwestern University
Chicago
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Clinical Neuropsychology
07/1997
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Ph.D. - Counseling Psychology
08/1995
University of Chicago
Chicago
Internship - Clinical Neuropsychology
07/1995
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Masters - Counseling & Consulting Psychology
06/1988
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
B.A. - English & Preprofessional Science
05/1986
Examination of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) validity and substantive scales in patients with electrical injury.
Soble JR, Resch ZJ, Schulze ET, Paxton JL, Cation B, Friedhoff C, Costin C, Fink JW, Lee RC, Pliskin NH. Examination of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) validity and substantive scales in patients with electrical injury. Clin Neuropsychol. 2019 May 20; 1-15.
PMID: 31106672
Psychiatric Outcome Over a Decade After Electrical Injury: Depression as a Predictor of Long-Term Adjustment.
Hahn-Ketter A, Aase DM, Paxton J, Fink JW, Kelley KM, Lee RC, Pliskin NH. Psychiatric Outcome Over a Decade After Electrical Injury: Depression as a Predictor of Long-Term Adjustment. J Burn Care Res. 2015 Jul-Aug; 36(4):509-12.
PMID: 25377863
Mood and cognition after electrical injury: a follow-up study.
Aase DM, Fink JW, Lee RC, Kelley KM, Pliskin NH. Mood and cognition after electrical injury: a follow-up study. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2014 Mar; 29(2):125-30.
PMID: 24395352
Alteration in functional brain systems after electrical injury.
Ramati A, Pliskin NH, Keedy S, Erwin RJ, Fink JW, Bodnar EN, Lee RC, Cooper MA, Kelley K, Sweeney JA. Alteration in functional brain systems after electrical injury. J Neurotrauma. 2009 Oct; 26(10):1815-22.
PMID: 19323610
Psychiatric morbidity following electrical injury and its effects on cognitive functioning.
Ramati A, Rubin LH, Wicklund A, Pliskin NH, Ammar AN, Fink JW, Bodnar EN, Lee RC, Cooper MA, Kelley KM. Psychiatric morbidity following electrical injury and its effects on cognitive functioning. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2009 Jul-Aug; 31(4):360-6.
PMID: 19555797
Neuropsychological changes following electrical injury.
Pliskin NH, Ammar AN, Fink JW, Hill SK, Malina AC, Ramati A, Kelley KM, Lee RC. Neuropsychological changes following electrical injury. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2006 Jan; 12(1):17-23.
PMID: 16433940
Neuropsychologic functioning and health status in systemic lupus erythematosus: does ethnicity matter?
Doninger NA, Fink JW, Utset TO. Neuropsychologic functioning and health status in systemic lupus erythematosus: does ethnicity matter? J Clin Rheumatol. 2005 Oct; 11(5):250-6.
PMID: 16357771