When a 14-year-old rescue named Miss Daisie began standing over her water bowl and forgetting how to drink, Angela Ardolino knew something was wrong. The dog wasn’t sick—she was slipping away. “She’d ...
Canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome, or CCDS, is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that mirrors many features of Alzheimer’s disease in humans, and it is far more common in aging dogs than ...
A protein called neurofilament light chain (NfL)—studied in humans in the context of neurodegenerative diseases and aging—is also detectable in the blood of numerous animals, and NfL levels increase ...