Ralph E. Tarter

TL;DR: The Working Party felt the need for a large study to redefine neuropsychiatric abnormalities in liver disease, which would allow the diagnosis of minimal (subclinical) encephalopathy to be made on firm statistical grounds, and suggested a modification of current nomenclature for clinical diagnosis of hepaticEncephalopathy.

TL;DR: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses indicated that neurobehavioral disinhibition is a component of the liability to early age at onset of substance use disorder.

TL;DR: The concept of common liability to addictions incorporates sequencing of drug use initiation as well as extends to related addictions and their severity, provides a parsimonious explanation of substance use and addiction co-occurrence, and establishes a theoretical and empirical foundation to research in etiology, quantitative risk and severity measurement, aswell as targeted non-drug-specific prevention and early intervention.

TL;DR: A procedure for systematically evaluating and treating adolescents with known or suspected substance abuse with the opportunity to comprehensively characterize the adolescent's problems and to quantitatively monitor treatment progress and outcome is described.