Otto Michael Lesch
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Medical University of Vienna
Austria
Biography
Prof Otto-Michael Lesch is currently president of the Austrian Society of Addiction Medicine, Head of the Addiction Medicine Research Group at the Medical University of Vienna, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Prof Lesch has been responsible for long term studies in alcohol dependence since 1972 and has organized a large number of international clinical trials and basic research studies in alcohol and tobacco dependence. He developed clinical assessment tools to define sub-groups of addiction for better treatment approaches and the Lesch Typology, devised by Professor Lesch himself, is used to categories patients with alcohol dependence into four subgroups. Prof Lesch was the secretary of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) for 12 years.
Research Interest
Addiction (tobacco, alcohol, opiates and amphetamines) and there interaction with temperaments, ADHD, affective disorders and developmental disorders showing that you need this knowledge to prescribe the effective antic raving medications