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  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Ralph E. Tarter is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular attention to public health, epidemiology, pediatrics, clinical psychology, and pharmacology. The main topics covered in their work include opioid use disorder treatment, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, prenatal substance exposure effects, cannabis and cannabinoid research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, genetic associations and epidemiology, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

They have contributed to multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Patient navigation for pregnant individuals with opioid use disorder: Results of a randomized multi-site pilot trial, 2023, Addiction
  • Addressing opioid medication misuse at point of service in community pharmacy: A study protocol for an interdisciplinary behavioral health trial, 2022, Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • Forecasting Opioid Use Disorder at 25 Years of Age in 16-Year-Old Adolescents, 2020, The Journal of Pediatrics
  • Derivation and assessment of the opioid use disorder severity scale: prediction of health, psychological and social adjustment problems, 2020, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Their frequent collaborators include Maureen Reynolds, Levent Kirisci, Michael M. Vanyukov, Gerald Cochran, and Benjamin Haaland.

Ralph E. Tarter has published multiple papers in key journals such as Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, The Lancet Psychiatry, Addiction, and The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Their multidisciplinary research intersects clinical and epidemiological approaches to substance abuse disorders and developmental health outcomes.

Award recognition includes being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Hepatic encephalopathy—Definition, nomenclature, diagnosis, and quantification: Final report of the Working Party at the 11th World Congresses of Gastroenterology, Vienna, 1998

    Peter Ferenci;Alan Lockwood;Kevin Mullen;Ralph Tarter

  • Neurobehavioral Disinhibition in Childhood Predicts Early Age at Onset of Substance Use Disorder

    Ralph E. Tarter;Levent Kirisci;Ada Mezzich;Jack R. Cornelius

  • Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders

    Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters;Renato Polimanti;Emma C. Johnson;Jeanette N. McClintick

  • Common liability to addiction and “gateway hypothesis”: Theoretical, empirical and evolutionary perspective

    Michael M. Vanyukov;Ralph E. Tarter;Galina P. Kirillova;Levent Kirisci

  • Differentiation of Alcoholics: Childhood History of Minimal Brain Dysfunction, Family History, and Drinking Pattern

    Ralph E. Tarter;Herbert McBride;Nancy Buonpane;Dorothea U. Schneider

  • Evaluation and Treatment of Adolescent Substance Abuse: A Decision Tree Method

    Ralph E. Tarter

  • Etiology of early age onset substance use disorder: A maturational perspective

    Ralph E. Tarter;Michael Vanyukov;Peter Giancola;Michael Dawes

  • Vulnerability to alcoholism in men: a behavior-genetic perspective.

    Ralph E. Tarter;Arthur I. Alterman;Kathleen L. Edwards

  • Are there inherited behavioral traits that predispose to substance abuse

    Ralph E. Tarter

  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder

    Emma C Johnson;Ditte Demontis;Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson;Raymond K Walters

  • Neurobehavior disinhibition in childhood predisposes boys to substance use disorder by young adulthood: direct and mediated etiologic pathways

    Ralph E Tarter;Levent Kirisci;Miguel Habeych;Maureen Reynolds

  • Adolescent versus adult onset and the development of substance use disorders in males.

    Duncan B Clark;Levent Kirisci;Ralph E Tarter

  • Adolescent sons of alcoholics: neuropsychological and personality characteristics.

    Ralph E. Tarter;Andrea M. Hegedus;Gerald Goldstein;Carolyn Shelly

  • Executive cognitive functioning and aggressive behavior in preadolescent boys at high risk for substance abuse/dependence.

    P. R. Giancola;C. S. Martin;R. E. Tarter;William E. Pelham

  • Origins and consequences of child neglect in substance abuse families

    Marija G. Dunn;Ralph E. Tarter;Ada C. Mezzich;Michael Vanyukov

  • Orthotopic liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease.

    Shashi Kumar;Rudolf E. Stauber;Judith S. Gavaler;Michael H. Basista

  • Antisocial symptoms in preadolescent boys and in their parents: Associations with cortisol

    Michael M. Vanyukov;Howard B. Moss;Joseph A. Plail;Timothy Blackson

  • Alcoholism: A Developmental Disorder.

    Ralph E. Tarter;Michael Vanyukov

  • Adolescent substance abuse.

    Yifrah Kaminer;Ralph E. Tarter

  • Psychological Deficit in Chronic Alcoholics: A Review

    Ralph E. Tarter

  • Etiology of early age onset substance use disorder

    Ralph Tarter;Michael Vanyukov;Peter Giancola;Michael A Dawes

Frequent Co-Authors

Levent Kirisci
Levent Kirisci University of Pittsburgh
Michael M. Vanyukov
Michael M. Vanyukov University of Pittsburgh
Ada C. Mezzich
Ada C. Mezzich University of Pittsburgh
Howard B. Moss
Howard B. Moss University of California, Riverside
David H. Van Thiel
David H. Van Thiel Rush University Medical Center
Duncan B. Clark
Duncan B. Clark University of Pittsburgh
Amelia M. Arria
Amelia M. Arria University of Maryland, College Park
Peter R. Giancola
Peter R. Giancola University of Kentucky
Arthur I. Alterman
Arthur I. Alterman University of Pennsylvania
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki

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