Cognitive Dysfunction (CCDS/DISHA) — 2026-07-12
4 Q&A pairs ingested into Pinecone (dog-knowledge-database). Source file: common-sense-dog-ai/scripts/qa-cognitive-dysfunction-dogs-2026-07-12.json.
Companion pack to [[Evidence-Based Holistic Topics (2026-07-12)]] — reuses the same already-verified MCT/CDS RCT (PMC6299068) and Milgram antioxidant-brain-aging series (PMC2734239), no re-verification needed since those citations were already checked this session.
What's new here (not just a repeat of the evidence pack)
- DISHA framing — Disorientation, Social interaction, sleep-wake (House-soiling), Activity/anxiety — as the diagnostic lens owners can recognize symptoms through.
- Mimics-first framing — explicit list of conditions that look like cognitive decline but aren't (joint pain, vision/hearing loss, UTI, thyroid) and why ruling those out first matters (several are directly treatable, unlike CCDS itself).
- Combined intervention — diet + environmental/mental enrichment outperforms diet alone in the research; framed as the recommended sequence (vet → rule out mimics → diet + enrichment).
- Early-intervention framing — earlier action preserves function better than waiting.
Evidence tier
🟢 Strong (MCT diet RCT, antioxidant-diet longitudinal series) — same tier as in the main evidence pack.
Related: [[Evidence-Based Holistic Topics (2026-07-12)]], [[PINECONE_PROTOCOL]]