Anthony Feinstein

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Feinstein received his medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand. He completed his Psychiatry training at the Royal Free Hospital in London, England. His MPhil and PhD degrees were obtained through the University of London. After obtaining his PhD, he worked as a Senior Registrar at the Maudsley Hospital in London before taking up an appointment at the University of Toronto where he is currently a professor of psychiatry and a clinician scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}

Over a three decade period, Feinstein's work has focused on determining brain imaging correlates of depression and pseudobulbar affect in people with MS. He has also developed computerized methods of detecting cognitive dysfunction, with a particular emphasis on the use of distracters. A third strand to his MS work relates to defining the cognitive and functional neuroimaging changes associated with the use of cannabis (marijuana) in people with MS.{{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=7peaBAoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate|title=Anthony Feinstein - Google Scholar Citations|work=google.com}}{{cite journal|title=Effects of cannabis on cognition in patients with MS A psychometric and MRI study|first1=Bennis|last1=Pavisian|first2=Bradley J.|last2=MacIntosh|first3=Greg|last3=Szilagyi|first4=Richard W.|last4=Staines|first5=Paul|last5=O'Connor|first6=Anthony|last6=Feinstein|date=27 May 2014|journal=Neurology|volume=82|issue=21|pages=1879–1887|doi=10.1212/WNL.0000000000000446|pmid=24789863|pmc=4105254}} His research has been funded by the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, the Canadian Institute of Health Research and the Progressive MS Alliance.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}

In 2000 Feinstein obtained a grant from the Freedom Forum in Washington, D.C. to undertake the first study exploring how war can affect the psychological wellbeing of front-line journalists. The results were subsequently published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1176/appi.ajp.159.9.1570|title = A Hazardous Profession: War, Journalists, and Psychopathology|journal = American Journal of Psychiatry|volume = 159|issue = 9|pages = 1570–1575|year = 2002|last1 = Feinstein|first1 = Anthony|last2 = Owen|first2 = John|last3 = Blair|first3 = Nancy|pmid = 12202279}} Since then, he has completed studies investigating how journalists have been affected by the attacks of 9/11 in New York,{{cite journal|title=Witnessing images of extreme violence: a psychological study of journalists in the newsroom|first1=Anthony|last1=Feinstein|first2=Blair|last2=Audet|first3=Elizabeth|last3=Waknine|date=1 August 2014|journal=JRSM Open|volume=5|issue=8|pages=2054270414533323|doi=10.1177/2054270414533323|pmid=25289144|pmc=4100239}} the 2003 war in Iraq,{{cite web|url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/dr-anthony-feinstein-war-conflict-and-why-journalism-undoubtedly-more-dangerous-today|title=Dr. Anthony Feinstein on war, conflict and "why journalism is undoubtedly more dangerous today"|work=utoronto.ca}} the drug wars in Mexico,{{cn|date=July 2024}} the 2007 election violence and Al-Shabab attack on the Westgate Mall in Kenya,{{cite web|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/kenyan-journalists-covering-violence-lack-ptsd-support/3171319.html|title=Kenyan Journalists Covering Violence Lack PTSD Support|first=Lenny|last=Ruvaga|work=Voice of America|date=February 2016 }} the Civil War in Syria and state-sponsored violence directed towards the media in Iran.

Feinstein was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 to study mental health problems in post-apartheid Namibia. A documentary, Journalists Under Fire,{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/ondemand/underfire|title=Watch UNDER FIRE: JOURNALISTS IN COMBAT Online - Vimeo On Demand|work=vimeo.com|date=2011-11-02}} based on his work with war journalists, produced by him (and directed by Martyn Burke), was short-listed for an Academy Award and won a 2012 Peabody Award. His series of articles for the Globe & Mail on Conflict Photograph {{cite news|url=http://tgam.ca/ShootingWar|title=Shooting War: Paying homage to 12 conflict photographers|work=tgam.ca}} was short-listed for a 2016 EPPY Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/editor-publisher-announces-the-2016-eppy-award-finalists/|title=Editor & Publisher Announces the 2016 EPPY Award Finalists – Editor & Publisher|work=editorandpublisher.com}}

• In Conflict, (New Namibia Books, 1998, {{ISBN|978-9991631691}})
• Michael Rabin, America's Virtuoso Violinist (Amadeus Press, 2005; second edition 2011, {{ISBN|978-1574671995}})
• Dangerous Lives: War and the Men and Women Who Report It (Thomas Allen Publishers, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0887621314}})
• Journalists Under Fire: the Psychological Hazards of Covering War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0801884412}})
• The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Multiple Sclerosis (Cambridge University Press, 1999; second edition 2007, {{ISBN|978-0521880152}})
• Battle Scarred (Tafelberg Press, 2011, {{ISBN|978-0624053743}})
• ''Mind, Mood, and Memory: The Neurobehavioral Consequences of Multiple Sclerosis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, {{ISBN|978-1421443249}})

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