Regular aerobic exercise – the kind that gets your heart pumping – can improve important thinking skills called executive functions, and the benefits appear especially strong for women after menopause, according to Rutgers researchers.

In a new study, researchers describe the development and validation of a multi-ancestry polygenic risk score (PRS) for AD that performs much better than previously constructed ones, especially for genetically diverse groups. This expanded representation of population groups is crucial for developing more robust and universally applicable PRS models, which can improve risk prediction among an ancestrally diverse group of patients.

In people diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, a biomarker tool that detects shrinkage of the brain’s gray matter may predict how quickly someone may progress from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia, according to a new study published August 26, 2026, in  Neurology^®, an official journal of the American Academy of Neurology.