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Georgina Aldridge, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Introduction

Dr. Georgina Aldridge is a neurologist and neuroscientist whose specializes in treating and diagnosing patients with cognitive disorders, including those with Lewy Body dementia/Parkinson's disease dementia.

Current Positions

  • Assistant Professor of Neurology

Education

  • BS in Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, New York, New York, United States
  • PhD, University of Illinois, Illinois, United States
  • MD/PhD, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, United States
  • Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program in Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, United States

Center, Program and Institute Affiliations

Research Interests

  • Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Licenses & Certifications

  • Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Iowa, United States

Selected Publications

  • Wagner, L. M., Nathwani, S. M., Ten Eyck, P. P. & Aldridge, G. M. (In Press). Local Cortical Overexpression of Human Wild-Type Alpha-Synuclein Leads to Increased Dendritic Spine Density in Mouse. Neuroscience Letters. PMID: 32417387.
  • 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. (Vols. 9). (123) Frontiers in Neurology. PMID: 29593630.
  • Serrano-Pozo, A., Aldridge, G. M. & Zhang, Q. (2017). Four Decades of Research in Alzheimer's Disease (1975-2014): A Bibliometric and Scientometric Analysis. (Vols. 59). (2), pp. 763-783. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. DOI: 10.3233/JAD-170184.
  • Mitchell, A. C., Aldridge, G., Kohler, S., Stanton, G., Sullivan, E., Garbett, K., Faludi, G., Mirnics, K., Cameron, J. L. & Greenough, W. (2010). Molecular correlates of spontaneous activity in non-human primates. Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 117 (12) 1353-8. DOI: 10.1007/s00702-010-0483-7. PMID: 20838826. PMCID: PMC3649869.
  • Pan, F., Aldridge, G. M., Greenough, W. T. & Gan, W. B. (2010). Dendritic spine instability and insensitivity to modulation by sensory experience in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (41) 17768-73. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012496107. PMID: 20861447. PMCID: PMC2955121.
  • Grossman, A. W., Aldridge, G. M., Lee, K. J., Zeman, M. K., Jun, C. S., Azam, H. S., Arii, T., Imoto, K., Greenough, W. T. & Rhyu, I. J. (2010). Developmental characteristics of dendritic spines in the dentate gyrus of Fmr1 knockout mice. Brain research 1355 221-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.07.090. PMID: 20682298. PMCID: PMC3433497.
  • Kao, D. I., Aldridge, G. M., Weiler, I. J. & Greenough, W. T. (2010). Altered mRNA transport, docking, and protein translation in neurons lacking fragile X mental retardation protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (35) 15601-6. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010564107. PMID: 20713728. PMCID: PMC2932564.
  • Aldridge, G. M., Podrebarac, D. M., Greenough, W. T. & Weiler, I. J. (2008). The use of total protein stains as loading controls: an alternative to high-abundance single-protein controls in semi-quantitative immunoblotting. Journal of neuroscience methods 172 (2) 250-4. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.05.003. PMID: 18571732. PMCID: PMC2567873.
  • Grossman, A. W., Aldridge, G. M., Weiler, I. J. & Greenough, W. T. (2006). Local protein synthesis and spine morphogenesis: Fragile X syndrome and beyond. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 26 (27) 7151-5. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1790-06.2006. PMID: 16822971.

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