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Today marks the first anniversary of our Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement Prevention Center. This first-of-its-kind center offers women ages 30 – 60 with a known family history of Alzheimer’s disease personalized risk reduction strategies based on their medical history and lifestyle habits.

Have you ever forgotten where you left your keys? Been unable to recall where you placed your wallet? Woken up late because it slipped your mind to set an alarm? None of these circumstances are cause for alarm, says Dr. Vernon Williams, a sports neurologist and founding director of the Center for Sports Neurology and Pain Medicine at the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles.

TODAY special anchor Maria Shriver has been on the front lines of the fight against Alzheimer’s after her father, Sargent Shriver, passed away from the disease a decade ago. Now she joins the show to talk about recent discoveries about the disease and ways to help women prevent Alzheimer’s.

Menopause changes women’s brains—but changes are temporary, according to new research. In one of the first studies to take an in-depth look at brain changes in healthy women before and after menopause, researchers found that the transition changes the brain’s structure, energy consumption and connectivity.