Richard Briggs, PhD

Professor
Radiology, Internal Medicine
Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering
Clinical Psychology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-8018
Office Fax: 214-648-2678

richard.briggs@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Dr. Richard Briggs is Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering and Director of Neuroimaging Research at UT Southwestern and Adjunct Professor of Brain and Behavioral Sciences at UT Dallas. He has authored more than 85 peer-reviewed articles, 155 abstracts, and five book chapters in various areas of magnetic resonance. He has served as an editorial board member for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Journal of Magnetic Resonance, and is currently Deputy Editor of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He has reviewed for 27 journals and served on numerous grant review panels for NIH, NSF, and other agencies.

Dr. Briggs obtained a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Arkansas in 1978, did postdoctoral research at Yale and Oxford, and held faculty positions for five years at Penn State’s Hershey Medical Center and for 16 years at the University of Florida before coming to UT Southwestern in July of 2003.

His research area is biomedical applications of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, with recent focus on investigating brain function and networks with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and emphasis on studying pain perception, language and motor recovery after stroke, Gulf war illness, use of fMRI to study other brain diseases and abnormalities, and reducing motion and susceptibility artifacts. Other interests include relaxation mechanisms, techniques development, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and integrated multimodality imaging (EEG & NIR & fMRI). At UT Southwestern, he is heading the neuroimaging component of Dr. Robert Haley’s research on Gulf War Illness.

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Arkansas-Fayetteville (1978)

Research Interests

functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain
Gulf War illness
MR spectroscopy and metabolite imaging
multi-modality functional imaging (fMRI, EEG, NIR)
perfusion and diffusion MRI

Publications

Featured
Perfusion Deficit to Cholinergic Challenge in Veterans with Gulf War Illness

P.L. Liu, S. Aslan, X. Li, D.M. Buhner, R.W. Briggs, R.W. Haley, H. Lu, NeuroToxicology, 2011; 32(2):242-246

Featured
Hippocampal Dysfunction in Gulf War Veterans: Investigation with ASL Perfusion Imaging and Physostigmine Challenge

X. Li, J.S. Spence, D.M. Buhner, J. Hart Jr., C.M. Cullum, M.M. Biggs, A.L. Hester, T.N. Odegard, P.S. Carmack, R.W. Briggs, R.W. Haley, Radiology, 2011; 261(1):218-225

Featured
The Neuroanatomic Correlates of Semantic Memory Deficits in Patients with Gulf War Illnesses: a Pilot Study

C.S. Calley, M.A. Kraut, J.S. Spence, R.W. Briggs, R.W. Haley, J. Hart Jr., Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2010; 4(3-4):248-255

Featured
Impaired Response Inhibition in Ill Gulf War Veterans

G.D. Tillman, T.A. Green, T.C. Ferree, C.S. Calley, M.J. Maguire, R. Briggs , J. Hart, Jr., R.W. Haley , M.A. Kraut, Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2010; 297(1),:1-5

Featured
Processing Words with Emotional Connotation: an fMRI Study of Time Course and Laterality in Rostral Frontal and Retrosplenial Cortices

M.A. Cato, B. Crosson, D. Gokcay, D. Soltysik, C. Wierenga, K. Gopinath, N. Himes, H. , J. Cogn. Neurosci. , 2004; (16(2)):167-177

Featured
T2*-Weighted Microimaging at 14 Tesla Using GESEPI for Removal of Magnetic Susceptibility Distortion

Q.X. Yang, M.B. Smith, R.W. Briggs, and R.E. Rycyna , J. Magn. Reson. , 1999; (141):1-6

Featured
Relation Between Work and Phosphate Metabolites in the in Vivo Paced Mammalian Heart

R.S. Balaban, H.L. Kantor, L. Katz, and R.W. Briggs , Science , 1986; (232):1121-1123

Featured
Gated in Vivo Examination of Cardiac Metabolites with 31P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

H.L. Kantor, R.W. Briggs, K.R. Metz, and R.S. Balaban , Amer. J. Physiol , 1986; (251):H171-H175

Featured
31P NMR Saturation Transfer Measurements of the Steady State-Rates of Creatine Kinase and ATP Synthetase in the Rat Brain

E.A. Shoubridge, R.W. Briggs, and G.K. Radda , FEBS Letters , 1982; (140):288-292

Dynamic Physostigmine Effects on Hippocampus Perfusion

X. Li, J.S. Spence, D.M. Buhner, R.W. Haley, R.W. Briggs, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging , 2012; 35(2) (February, 2012):280-286

Honors/Awards

Fellow

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2001)

Outstanding Young Alumni Award

Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS (1991)

American Heart Association/British Heart Foundation British-American Research Fellow

Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, England (1981)

National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT (1980)

NSF NATO Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, England (1979)