A new study finds dogs with canine cognitive dysfunction (CCD) have similar brain patterns to humans with Alzheimer’s disease, according to UW Medicine.
UW Medicine says that, with permission from the dogs’ owners, they looked at 24 dogs’ brains to track how CCD works. They also took blood from “about half of the dogs.”
“No one had mapped this neuropathology in dogs before — that’s what we set out to do,” co-author Dr. Caitlin Latimer said in a UW Newsroom release. “Yes, we know that we see similarities in how an aging dog behaves and how an aging human might behave, but until we actually looked at the brain and tried to identify and quantify what was there, we didn’t have a true picture of the disease.”…