Dr. Tarter directs the NIDA-funded Center for Education and Drug Abuse Research (CEDAR). Trained as a clinical neuropsychologist, he has been conducting research for the past three decades on a variety of topics pertaining to brain-behavior relationships. Currently, his interests focus on the role of executive cognitive functions as they relate to the risk for substance abuse. Other facets of investigation at CEDAR address the psychopathological, family, ecological, genetic, and behavioral antecedents of substance use and substance use disorders using a perspective longitudinal design.

For additional information, see http://cedar.pharmacy.pitt.edu/main.html.

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