Marc N Potenza PhD, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Neurobiology; Director, Center of Excellence in Gambling Research; Director, Yale Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders; Director, Women and Addictive Disorders, Women's Health Research at Yale

Departments & Organizations
NeurobiologyChild Study Center
Psychiatry: Connecticut Mental Health Center | Division of Human Genetics | Substance Abuse Research | Women's Health Research at Yale | CENTURY | Psychotherapy Development Research Center | Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's Health | Stress & Addiction Clinical Research Program | Division of Addictions | Division of Women's Behavioral Health Research | Yale Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders
Biography
Dr. Potenza is a board-certified psychiatrist with sub-specialty training and certification in addiction psychiatry. He has trained at Yale University receiving a combined BS/MS with Honors in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics and a PhD in Cell Biology, the latter concurrent with the MD through the Medical Scientist Training Program. He completed internship, psychiatric residency and addiction psychiatry fellowship training at Yale. Currently, he is a Professor of Psychiatry, Child Study and Neurobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine where he is Director of the Problem Gambling Clinic, the Center of Excellence in Gambling Research, and the Women and Addictive Disorders Core of Women's Health Research at Yale, and Director of Neuroimaging for the VISN1 MIRECC of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. He is on the editorial boards of eight journals and has received multiple national and international awards for excellence in research and clinical care. He has consulted to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Registry of Effective Programs, National Institutes of Health, American Psychiatric Association and World Health Organization on matters of addiction.Education
- Ph.D., Yale University , 1993
- M.D., Yale University School of Medicine , 1994
Selected Publication
- Jastreboff AM, Potenza MN, Lacadie C, Hong K, Sherwin R, Sinha R (in press) Body mass index, metabolic factors and striatal activation during stressful and neutral/relaxing states: an fMRI study. Neuropsychopharmacol
Articles
Winter 2013
Lottery tickets may pose risk
Youngsters who receive instant lottery tickets as gifts tend to start gambling earlier in life, perhaps putting them at...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Yale’s M.D./Ph.D. Program celebrates a birthday and 188 promising careers
When Donald E. Ingber graduated from Yale College in 1977, he had definite ideas about what he wanted to do in life. He...

Summer 2003
High Resolution
The opening of a new Magnetic Resonance Research Center gives Yale expanded capabilities for advancing imaging science...
Autumn 2001
Slot machines and the cingulate cortex
From the green towers of the world’s largest casino rising up from the Connecticut farmland to the smash-hit television...



