Department of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics

Faculty Biography

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston is dedicated to improving the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.


Richard E. Frye, M.D., Ph.D.

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Education:

B.A., Psychobiology, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY

M.S., Biomedical Science / Biostatistics, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

Ph.D., Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

M.D., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Residency, Pediatrics, University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida

Residency, Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

Fellowship, Behavioral Neurology and Learning Disabilities, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

Fellowship, Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Clinical and Research Interests:

  1. Autism and Developmental Delay
  2. Speech and Language Delay
  3. Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disorders
  4. Epileptic Encephalopathy
  5. Learning Disabilities and Dyslexia
  6. Attention Deficit
  7. Tics and Tourette Syndrome
  8. Sleep Disorders
  9. Magnetoencephalography
  10. Diffusion Tensor Imaging
  11. Cortical Morphology

Publications (selected):

  • Frye, R.E., Butler, I., Strickland, D., Castillo, E., Papanicolaou, A. Electroencephalogram discharges in atypical cognitive development. Journal of Child Neurology, in press.
  • Frye, R.E., Huffman, L.C., Elliot, G.R. Tetrahydrobiopterin as a novel therapeutic intervention for autism, Neurotheraputics, in press.
  • Frye, R.E. Autism. In (Ed) Carney, P.R. and Geyer, J.R. Pediatric Practice: Neurology, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, in press.
  • Frye, R.E. Mitochondrial disease treatments for autism. In Cutting Edge Therapies for Autism, Skyhorse Publishing, New York, in press.
  • Frye, R.E. Antiepileptic drug treatments for autism. In Cutting Edge Therapies for Autism, Skyhorse Publishing, New York, in press.
  • Frye, R.E., Rezaie, R., Papanicolaou, A., Maestu, F., Fernandez, A., Aine, C., Bowyer, S., Eswaran, H., Wakai, R. Postscript: Future Applications of Clinical MEG. In (Ed) Papanicolaou, A. Clinical MEG. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2009.
  • Frye, R.E., Liederman, J., Malmberg, B. MacLean, J., Strickland, D., Beauchamp, M.S. Surface Area Accounts for the Relation of Gray Matter Volume to Reading-Related Skills and History of Dyslexia, Cerebral Cortex, in press.
  • Frye, R.E., Hasan, K., Malmberg, B., deSouza, L., Swank, P., Smith, K., Landry, S. Superior longitudinal fasciculus and cognitive dysfunction in adolescents born preterm and at term. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, in press.
  • Liederman, J., Saloman, J.L. Hensley, K. McGraw Fisher, J., Frye, R. The timing of the influence of one syllable on the next generalizes across tasks: Its significance as an indicator of refractoriness. The Journal of General Psychology, in press.
  • Hasan, K.M, Frye, R.E. Diffusion Tensor based Regional Gray Matter Tissue Segmentation Using the International Consortium for Brain Mapping Atlases. Human Brain Mapping, in press.
  • Pollonini, L., Pophale, S., Wu, W., Frye, R.E., Leon-Carrion, J., Zouridakis, G. Information Communication Networks in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Brain Topography, in press.
  • Liederman, J., Gilbert, K., McGraw Fisher, J., Mathews, G., Frye, R.E., Joshi, P. Are women more influenced than men by top-down semantic information when listening to disrupted speech? Language and Speech, in press.
  • Frye, R.E., Malmberg, B., deSouza, L., Swank, P., Smith, K., Landry, S. Increased prefrontal activation in adolescents born prematurely at high risk during a reading task. Brain Research, 1303:111-9, 2009.
  • Frye, R.E. 15q11.2-13 Duplication, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Developmental Disorders. Journal of Child Neurology, 24:1316-20, 2009.
  • Frye, R.E., Smith, K., Swank, P, Landry, S. Executive Dysfunction in Poor Readers Born Prematurely at High Risk. Developmental Neuropsychology, 34(3):254-71, 2009.
  • Frye, R.E., Rezaie, R., Papanicolaou, A.C. Functional Neuroimaging of Language Using Magnetoencephalography. Physics of Life Reviews, 6:1-10, 2009.
  • Frye, R.E., Beauchamp, M.S. Receptive Language Organization in High-Functioning Autism. Journal of Child Neurology, 24(2):231-9, 2009
  • Frye, R.E., Hasan, K., Xue, L., Strickland, D., Malmberg, B., Liederman, J., Papanicolaou, A. Splenium Microstructure is Related to Two Dimensions of Reading Skill. Neuroreport, 19(16):1627-31, 2008
  • Beauchamp, M.S., Yasar, N.E., Frye, R.E., Ro, T. Touch, Sound and Vision in Human Superior Temporal Sulcus, Neuroimage, 41: 1011-1020, 2008.
  • Frye, R.E., McGraw Fisher, J., Witzel, T., Ahlfors, S.P., Swank, P., Liederman, J. Halgren, E. Objective Phonological and Subjective Perceptual Characteristics of Syllables Modulate Spatiotemporal Patterns of Superior Temporal Gyrus Activity. Neuroimage. 40: 1888-1901, 2008.
  • Frye, R.E., Rotenberg, A., Ousley, M., Pascual-Leone, A. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Child Neurology: Current and Future Directions. Journal of Child Neurology, 23(1): 79-96, 2008.

Faculty Biography

Dr. Richard Frye
  • Richard Frye, M.D., Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
  • Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology

  • Division of Child & Adolescent Neurology
  • University of Texas-Houston Medical School
    6431 Fannin Street, MSB 3.153
    Houston, Texas 77030
  • Phone: (713) 500-7113
    Fax: (713) 500-7101
    e-mail: Richard.E.Frye@ uth.tmc.edu
  • Executive Assistant:
    Brandy Chandler (713) 500-7142
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