Marc N. Potenza, MD, PhD

Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, Connecticut; Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, Wethersfield, Connecticut; Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Marc N. Potenza, MD, PhD, is affiliated with multiple departments at Yale University School of Medicine and related Connecticut institutions. Potenza has authored research on addiction, child and adolescent psychiatry, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorders. His work includes studies on pharmacotherapies for stimulant use disorder with ADHD, treatments for alcohol dependence and problem gambling, problematic internet use in adolescents, and impulse-control disorders in psychiatric populations. Potenza has published extensively since 1999 in Psychiatrist.com journals.

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Pharmacotherapies for Co-Occurring Stimulant Use Disorder and ADHD
Meta-Analysis

Pharmacotherapies for Co-Occurring Stimulant Use Disorder and ADHD

August 31, 2026

Stimulant-based pharmacotherapies, particularly higher-dose methylphenidate and mixed amphetamine salts, were associated with superior outcomes for both stimulant-use indicators and ADHD symptoms.
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Problem Gambling and Alcohol Dependence Treatment

December 27, 2017

Alcohol dependence and pathological gambling are known to frequently co-occur. So how does problem gambling affect the treatment for alcohol dependence? This study looks at the influence of gambling...
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Original Research

A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of N-Acetylcysteine Plus Imaginal Desensitization for Nicotine-Dependent Pathological Gamblers

November 26, 2013

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Article

Problematic Internet Use and Health in Adolescents: Data From a High School Survey in Connecticut

April 19, 2011

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Original Research

A Cross-Sectional Study of Problem and Pathological Gambling in Patients With Schizophrenia/Schizoaffective Disorder

June 16, 2009

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Original Research

Relationship of Nicotine Dependence, Subsyndromal and Pathological Gambling, and Other Psychiatric Disorders: Data From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions

February 24, 2009

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Impulse-Control Disorders in Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients: Co-Occurring Disorders and Sex Differences

October 15, 2007

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Original Research

Olanzapine Addition in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Refractory to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: An Open-Label Case Series

August 1, 1999

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