Cat brains age like humans: Translating Time shows pet cats live to be natural models for human aging
Capucine Januel, Elijah Morrow, Ryan Gibson, Amanda L. Gross, Alexandra Allison de Sousa, Brier A. Rigby Dames, Christine J. Charvet
The paper finds that cat and human brains age similarly, allowing cross-species age alignment, and suggests cats, especially pet cats, are natural models for human aging.
Biology Open · May 18, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience