Education:
B.S., Medical Sciences: San Diego State University, UCLA
M.D.: University of California at San Francisco
Internship, University of California at San Francisco
Residency, Psychiatry: UCLA and National Institute of Mental Health
Clinical Associate: National Institute of Mental Health

Summary Statement:
Dr. Janowsky sees patients and teaches residents in the acute diagnostic and treatment clinic one-half day per week. He consults on psychopharmacological issues at the Murdoch Center for the mentally retarded in Butner, N.C., one and one-half days per week. As well, he treats on a one-on-one basis approximately 12-15 patients per week, utilizing psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. Dr. Janowsky does research on the role of core personality characteristics such as introversion in suicidality and depression and also does research on the relationship of sweet liking to addictive disorders. He also studies the role of cholinergic mechanisms in depression and is developing antidotes to cholinergic nerve agent (i.e. nerve gas) poisoning.

Representative Publications:
1. Janowsky DS, Leff M, Epstein RS: Playing the manic game : Interpersonal maneuvers of the acutely manic patient. Archives of General Psychiatry 22:252-260, 1970.

2. Janowsky DS, Overstreet DH, Nurnberger JI,Jr.: Is cholinergic sensitivity a genetic marker for the affective disorders? American Journal of Medical Genetics S(Neuropsychiatric Genetics) 54:335-344, 1994.

3. Janowsky DS. Introversion and extroversion: Implications for depression and suicidality. Current Psychiatry Reports 3(6):90-97, 2001.

4. Janowsky DS, Morter, S, Hong L, Howe L. Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire differences between bipolar patients and unipolar depressed patients. Bipolar Disorders 2:98-108, 1999.

5. Janowsky DS, Morter S, Hong L: The relationship of Myers Briggs Type Indicator personality characteristics to suicidality in affective disorder patients. Journal of Psychiatric Research 36(1):33-39, 2002.