Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life

Conference Participant

gambling and the american moral lanscape

PotenzaMarc Potenza is Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Division of Substance Abuse), Director of the Problem Gambling Clinic, Director of Neuroimaging for the VA MIRECC, and Director of the Women and Addictive Disorders Core of Women's Health Research at Yale University. He holds a Ph.D. in cell biology and an M.D. from Yale University. Potenza investigates the relationship between “behavioral” addictions and drug addictions with particular focus on the etiology and treatment of pathological gambling and the relationship between pathological gambling and drug use disorders. His research group uses a variety of investigative approaches—fMRI neuroimaging, molecular genetic, clinical treatment trials, and epidemiological analyses—to investigate these areas. He is the co-editor of Pathological Gambling: A Clinical Guide to Treatment (American Psychiatric Press, 2004), and the author of many articles on pathological gambling, including “Should addictive disorders include non-substance-related conditions,” Addiction, 2006; “Shared Genetic Contributions to Major Depression and Pathological Gambling,” with H. Xian et al. (Archives of General Psychiatry, 2005); and “Pathological Gambling,” with T.R. Kosten and B.J. Rounsaville (Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001).

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