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Secondary Prevention: Neurobiological Mediators and Moderators of Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes
The PTRAN summer symposium series will convene investigators whose work is or could be aligned with a translational neuroscience approach to developing more effective interventions to disrupt pathways to substance use disorders (SUDs). This series will bring substance use investigators and trainees from biomedical/neuroscience and prevention science together with invested stakeholders, with the aim of advancing a transdisciplinary, translational approach to address the gaps in SUD prevention.
Speakers:
Marc Potenza MD PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Child Study and Neuroscience @Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Potenza is a board-certified psychiatrist with sub-specialty training in addiction psychiatry. He is Prof. of Psychiatry, Child Study and Neuroscience at the Yale University School of Medicine where he is the Director of the Division on Addictions Research, the Problem Gambling Clinic, the Center of Excellence in Gambling Research, the Women and Addictive Disorders Core of Women’s Health Research at Yale and the Yale Research Program on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders. He is on the editorial board for 15 journals (incl. editor-in-chief of Current Addiction Reports) and has received multiple national and international awards for excellence in research and clinical care. He has consulted to SAMHSA, National Registry of Effective Programs, NIH, APA, and WHO on matters of addiction. Dr. Potenza’s research focuses on the neurobiology and treatment of substance and behavioral addictions and other disorders characterized by impaired impulse control and reward-related motivations
Rajita Sinha PhD
Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience @Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Sinha is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Neuroscientist, Chief of the Psychology Section in Psychiatry and Co-Director of Education for the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. She is the founding director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center that focuses on understanding the neurobiology of stress, trauma and addictive health behaviors, including alcohol and substance abuse. She has developed novel drug craving, stress, pain and food/reward provocation paradigms to understand mechanisms that drive these states and related pathologies. Her lab has also developed and tested novel pharmacological and behavioral interventions to address behavior change to target the link between stress adversity, trauma and addictive behaviors to decrease addiction relapse risk. Her research has been supported by a series of NIH funded research projects continuously for over 20 years and she has published over 320 scientific peer reviewed publications in these areas.
- Trans Neuro Prevention Session 2 Flyer
