The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Tara White

Dr. Tara White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health at Brown Medical School. Dr. White has strong research interests in the biological bases of personality and temperament, and is interested in the differences between people in effects of alcohol and drugs on mood, behavior, and brain function. Her research is conducted at the Brown University Tim Trio 3 tesla MRI facility in Sidney Frank Hall and at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.

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Dr. White is an Assistant Professor in Community Health at Brown University. She received her PhD from Cornell University in 1998, pursued postdoctoral training in long-term effects of prenatal drug exposure using animal models at Cornell from 1998 to 2000, and completed postdoctoral training in human behavioral psychopharmacology at the University of Chicago in 2002 and neuroimaging methods at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2001. She has taught undergraduate, graduate and extension courses in the neural bases of emotion and drug effects at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Chicago's Graham School of General Studies. Dr. White joined the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies as research faculty in July 2002.

Dr. White's research interests concern the biological bases of individual differences in personality and acute drug effects, with an emphasis on identifying brain mechanisms conferring vulnerability to psychostimulant use and abuse in healthy, nonaddicted populations. Dr. White is PI on a Center Research Excellence Award (REA) grant and a NIDA Imaging-Science Track Award for Research Transition (I/START) and a NIDA R01 grant to investigate the neural mechanisms of individual differences in the impulsive behavioral and emotional effects of moderate doses of psychostimulants. Recent publications have focused on menstrual cycle variation in psychostimulant effects, and the noradrenergic mediation of emotional traits in humans. Her work has been presented at annual meetings of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN), College of Problems in Drug Dependence (CPDD), the American Psychological Association (APA), the International Study Group Investigating Drugs as Reinforcers (ISGIDAR) and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). Dr. White has co-authored the book The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next with colleagues in human development at Cornell and serves as reviewer for journals Addiction; Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research; Biological Psychiatry; Drug and Alcohol Dependence; Journal of Psychopharmacology; Journal of Studies on Alcohol; Memory & Cognition; Neuropsychopharmacology; Neuroscience; Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior; Psychology of Addictive Behaviors; and Psychopharmacology.

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TARA WHITE, PhD
Assistant Professor of Community Health (Research)
Bio Med Alcohol & Addiction
Phone: +1 401 863 6625
E-mail: Tara_White@Brown.EDU

Tara White's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Tara_White

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Harriet de Wit, University of Chicago

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