Cats that become demented get similar changes in the brain as humans with Alzheimer's. The findings can now lead to medicine for both humans and cats.
By imaging the brain tissue of 25 dead cats, researchers at, among other places, Edinburgh's university saw that the cats' brains got accumulations of the protein amyloid-beta and lost synapses just like Alzheimer's patients, writes Science Daily.
The study is published in the journal European Journal of Neuroscience.
