Principal Investigator: Mariya Cherkasova, PhD
Awarded $34,500 in 2016
Aim: Understand the effects that sensory reward cues have on risky decision making in both healthy volunteers and disordered gamblers through a laboratory tasks; for example, measuring the impact of cues using eye tracking.
Principal Investigator: Joshua B. Grubbs, PhD, Bowling Green State University
Awarded $34,500
Aim: Deepen the knowledge of the co-occurrence of gambling disorder and post-traumatic stress, by specifically examining the dispositional, motivational, and cognitive aspects of the known relationships between the two domains. Using two samples of veterans in a residential treatment program and an online, community sample of gambling adults, the project seeks to examine how symptoms of post-traumatic stress may be related to a tendency toward negative emotion (i.e., trait neuroticism), gambling-related cognitions (i.e., positive expectancies about gambling), and motivation to use gambling to cope with or escape from negative emotion.
Principal Investigator: Belle Gavriel-Fried, PhD, Tel Aviv University
Awarded $34,500 in 2017
Aims: (1) Examine the applicability of the concept of Recovery Capital to recovery from gambling addiction; and (2) probe gender differences in relation to their recovery and recovery capital. One-hundred and forty individuals who terminated treatment of gambling disorders in the previous 1-5 years will be asked to complete questionnaires including the gambling follow-up scale, the DSM-5 GD, the Assessment of Recovery Capital, and 3 open-ended questions.
Principal Investigator: Paul Sacco, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Awarded $34,500 in 2017
Aims: (1) To pilot screening for problem gambling in a sample of adults who seek services from a national consumer credit counseling organization; (2) To compare prevalence of at-risk gambling in consumer credit counseling users to national estimates; and (3) To evaluate the perceived acceptability and feasibility of gambling screening from the perspective of credit counselors.
Principal Investigator: Eve Limbrick-Oldfield, PhD, University of British Columbia
Awarded $1,500 in 2017
Dr. Limbrick-Oldfield will present a poster and an oral presentation at the 2017 meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
Principal Investigator: Martha W. Waller, PhD, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Awarded $291,868 in 2017
Aim: Examine gambling behavior among adolescents and adults across New Mexico with specific focus on subpopulations of race/ethnicity, military involvement, parents of minors, sexual minorities, housing unstable, and college students. Building on existing long-term relationships with prevention communities across the state, the investigators will use a culturally competent, mixed-methods data collection approach to gather data from youth and adults across all regions of the state including rural, frontier, tribal, and urban locations to estimate problem gambling prevalence and statistically model the association with co-occurring risk and protective factors.
Principal Investigator: Cole Vonder Haar, PhD, West Virginia University
Awarded $34,413 in 2017
Aim: Understand the factors that lead to the development of Gambling Disorder after brain injury through a study of the decision-making abilities of brain-injured rats.
Principal Investigator: Gabriel C. Quintero, PhD, Florida State University – Republic of Panama
Awarded $1,500 in 2018
The Travel Grant will support the PI’s participation as a poster presenter at the annual meeting of the American Psychopathological Association.
Principal Investigator: Steven D. Shirk, PhD, ENRM VA Hospital/New England MIRECC
Awarded $1,500 in 2018
The Travel Grant will support the PI’s participation as an oral presenter at the International Conference on Behavioral Addictions.
Principal Investigator: Silvia Ronzitti, MD, Yale School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Healthcare System
Awarded $1,500 in 2018
The Travel Grant will support the PI’s participation as a poster presenter at the annual meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD).
