A Dog’s Shortening Front Stride Can Signal Dementia Before the Memory Goes
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Years before a person with dementia starts forgetting names or losing the thread of a conversation, their walk often gives them away. The steps get shorter. Slower, a little uneven, sometimes a shuffle. Neurologists have long read this as a message from the frontal cortex and the cerebellum, the brain regions that plan and police movement, faltering. Now it turns out our dogs may be sending the same message, written in the length of their front-leg stride.
That is the finding from a team at Nort
That is the finding from a team at Nort
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