 John H. Greist, MD ERT Director, Healthcare Technology Systems, Inc. Visit Website |
Consultant, ERT ePRO Solutions
Distinguished Senior Scientist,
Madison Institute of Medicine®, Inc.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin
John H. Greist, MD, is a Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Madison Institute of Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, both in Madison. He is also Co-Founder of the Lithium Information Center, Bipolar Disorders Treatment Information Center and the Obsessive Compulsive Information Center, at the Madison Institute of Medicine. His major clinical and research interests are anxiety and mood disorders, psychopharmacology, behavior therapy, and clinical applications of computing. Dr. Greist has lectured widely on these and other topics.
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Data Management Q&A
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The genetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder remain a mystery. Are researchers getting closer to understanding what are the underlying triggers?Answered September 16th, 2009 by Expert:Researchers are always getting closer to answers for the questions they
pose and study, often through the two steps forward, one, two, or three
steps backward method. That said, I do not believe we shall have better
clinically useful understandings of the genetics involved in the many
kinds of OCD presentations that exist for many years. OCD, and most
medical disorders, are genetically complex or multifactoral.Leave a reply