The Division has established the Neuroimaging Research Center to bring to bear the most advanced brain scanning technology to understand the nature and distribution of brain injuries that underlie the Gulf War syndrome and similar diseases in the civilian population.

Directed by Dr. Richard Briggs, the Center features a 3 Tesla full bore human imaging magnet, housed in the Meadows MRI Center on the UT Southwestern campus near the General Clinical Research Center.  This facility will be used for functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), MR spectroscopy, and the diffusion tensor imaging.

The Center will also conduct studies using other brain imaging technologies, such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and will correlate these results with those obtained from MR studies.