Prof gets grant to study gambling
Yale psychiatry professor Marc Potenza has been awarded over $400,000 to found a gambling disorder research center at the University.
The grant from the Institute for Research on Gambling Disorders, to be administered over three years, will provide start-up funds for a "Center of Excellence" at Yale to study gambling disorders. Potenza will head the center, which will investigate “whether the [alcoholism] drug naltrexone will be effective in a ‘real world’ clinical setting,” the NCRG announced in a release May 14. The IRGD has awarded a similar grant to researchers at the...
