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Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE Practical Matters: Don't jump to conclusions in ataxic dogs July 1, 2008 By:Wanda J. Gordon-Evans, DVM, PhD, DACVS A frantic owner brings in a 4-year-old Scottish terrier that cannot use its back legs after a collapse.

Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE Treating meat goats for neurological ills May 1, 2008 By:Christine Navarre, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVIM Practitioners provide veterinary care for a growing number of meat goats in the United States — animals known to develop neurological disease.

Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS Treating seizures: The old and the new (Proceedings) April 1, 2008 The primary goal is to treat the underlying disorder.

Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS Managing myasthenia gravis (Proceedings) April 1, 2008 By:Lisa Klopp, DVM, MS, DACVIM Acquired myasthenia gravis is an immune-mediated disorder in which autoantibodies develop against the neuromuscular junction acetylcholine receptors (AChR).

Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS Nonsurgical spinal cord diseases: It is not always a disk (Proceedings) April 1, 2008 Fibrocartilagenous embolus(i) is an acute spinal cord infarction(s) caused by microscopic spinal vessel occlusion by material histologically resembling the intervertebral disk (nucleus pulposus).

Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS The tetraparetic dog: The upper motor neuron, the lower motor neuron, and the in-between (Proceedings) April 1, 2008 Tetraparesis or tetraplegia is a neurological condition in which all four limbs are weak (paresis) or paralyzed (plegia).

Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS Seizures: Forming the differential diagnoses list (Proceedings) April 1, 2008 By:Lisa Klopp, DVM, MS, DACVIM Clients frequently use the term "seizure" to describe many different episodic events.

Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS Nervous system diseases and pain: Pathophysiology and therapy (Proceedings) April 1, 2008 Animals with acute intervertebral disk extrusion are almost always painful.

Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE New anticonvulsant drugs show promise in dogs, cats March 1, 2008 By:Johnny D. Hoskins, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM Dr. C.W. Dewey gave an excellent lecture at the 2007 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum on ?Recent and Upcoming Developments with the New Anticonvulsant Drugs.?

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