Ongoing Research projects:

A drawing of a brain with SMASH Dementia! next to a colorful hammer over the drawn brain.

SMASH Dementia! A study designed to help better understand how sleep, mood, and arousal symptoms are interconnected in patients with dementia (compared to healthy control participants) as the disease progresses. For more information, please see the SMASH Dementia! tab or CLICK HERE.

Please remember to sign up to eventually donate your brain to science. There is no better donation and we need your help. For more information, speak with your neurologist, contact Dr. Aldridge, or CLICK HERE.


Upcoming research Projects:

We have some treatment trials coming along in the pipeline. Check back here for more details in the future. 


Completed research projects, publications and reviews on these diseases:

Understanding Lewy Body and other Dementias such as Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia has to start with patients: 

Zhang Q*, Aldridge GM*, Narayanan NS, Anderson SW, Uc EY (2020). Approach to Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease. Neurotherapeutics. 2020 Oct;17(4):1495-1510  Review. PubMed PMID: 33205381

Zhang, Q., Schultz., J. Aldridge, GM., Simmering, JE., Narayanan, NS. Covid-19 case fatality and Parkinson’s disease. (2020) Movement Disorders. Nov;35(11):1914-1915 PMID: 32954522

Aldridge, G.M., Birnschein, A., Denburg, N.D., Narayanan, N.S. (2018). Parkinson’s disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies have similar neuropsychological profiles. Frontiers in Neurology. Mar 12;9:123 PMID: 29593630 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2018.00123/full

Serrano-Pozo, A., Aldridge, G.M., Zhang, Q. (2017). Four Decades of Research in Alzheimer’s Disease (1975-2014): A Bibliometric and Scientometric Analysis. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. 2017;59(2):763-783 PMID: 28671119