http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A study combining genetic data with brain imaging, designed to identify genes associated with the amyloid plaque deposits found in Alzheimer's disease patients, has not only identified the APOE gene—long associated with development of Alzheimer's—but has uncovered an association with a second gene, called BCHE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-genome-wide-imaging-gene-alzheimer-plaques.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:48:47 EST news280597692 An arsenal of Alzheimer's research revealed at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 59th Annual Meeting indicates that beta-amyloid plaque in the brain not only is involved in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease but may also precede even mild cognitive decline. These and other studies advance molecular imaging for the early detection of beta-amyloid, for which one product is now approved in the United States , as a major push forward in the race for better treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-molecular-imaging-alzheimer-healthy-patients.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:19:57 EST news258639589 (HealthDay) -- Researchers are preparing to test an experimental drug in people genetically primed to develop Alzheimer's disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-trial-drug-alzheimer.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 16 May 2012 16:10:04 EST news256399609 The parasite Toxoplasma gondii has some favorable effects on the pathogenesis and progression of a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, reports a Mar. 21 study in the open access journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-mice-infected-toxoplasma-gondii-parasite.html Medical research Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:00:08 EST news251557472 A diametric shift in the levels of two proteins involved in folding, moving and cutting other proteins enables accumulation of the destructive brain plaque found in Alzheimer's disease, researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-diametric-shift-protein-spurs-alzheimer.html Medical research Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:00:02 EST news241962075