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Phone: 734-998-7952
 Major research interest is the etiology of substance abuse over the life span, and preventive programming that will change course. One major project is a prospective, high risk family study of initially preschool age children and their substance abusing parents, currently 14 years in process. Zucker is particularly interested in the relationship of macrolevel influencing structures to individual behavior, and the interplay between genetic vulnerability, brain function, behavior, socialization structure, and life phase task variation, in producing troubled outcomes. A second set of studies focuses on clinical outcomes and brain-behavior relationships among alcoholics and other drug abusing populations. In both of these areas, ongoing and planned spin off projects focus on behavioral and pharmacotheraputic intervention strategies to reduce abuse and related problems. Current teaching involves the field based research training of undergraduates, and training of postdoctoral fellows and post-residency physicians in advanced research methods. A new NIH funded project supports a collaborative research training initiative with the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, Poland.
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