The Cognitive Disorders Program under has a tripartite mission of clinical care, research and education.

Our Center provides consultation and treatment for patients who have diseases that affect memory, behavior and other cognitive functions. We see patients with confirmed or definitive diagnosis as well as those who are suspected to have a disorder but who are not formally diagnosed by a neurologist. We also see patients who are seeking a second opinion or whose diagnosis may span multiple disorders.
While more conditions arise as people age, we assess adult patients of any age for concerns related to memory problems, language deficits, features of Parkinson’s Disease (such as shaking or stiffness), symptoms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease, Lewy body dementia and head injury, and problems that come from stroke, vascular diseases, and cortical-basal degeneration.

Our team consists of a multi-specialty group of physicians, neuropsychologists, physical & rehabilitation medicine, nurses, genetist and social worker with specialists from Neurology, Geriatrics, Psychiatry, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine, Pathology, and other departments from SUNY Upstate Medical University.

The program specializes in treating patients with memory loss, dementia, and cognitive dysfunction and has several ongoing research projects.

Specific interests include Alzheimer's disease, familial dementias and genetic studies, mild cognitive impairment, vascular dementia, diversity studies, management of behavioral and psychotic symptoms, dementia associated with Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and other movement disorders.

Conditions We Treat

• Alzheimer’s disease
• Frontotemporal Dementia
• Dementia Lewy Body
• Corticobasal Degeneration
• Vascular Cognitive Impairment
• Parkinson’s Disease Dementia
• Cerebral Amyloid angiopathy
• Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE)
• Suspected non-Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology (SNAP)
• Leukoencephalopathies
• Cognitive impairments that arise from epilepsy, neoplasm, head injury