Veterinarian Dr. Rebekah Hartfield explains the causes, warning signs, and treatment options for seizures in dogs and cats, and offers guidance for pet owners on how to respond safely.
It was back in the early 1990s that people who studied dogs were surprised by a number of reports about dogs like Harley, a golden retriever owned by Victoria Doroshenko. Victoria has epilepsy, and ...
Working with medically trained service dogs is associated with a 31% reduction in seizures compared with usual care in treatment-resistant epilepsy, a new study showed. Investigators speculate that ...
Service dogs have a long history of helping humans safely navigate the world. Those that can assist their owners with certain ...
Lompoc Health neurologist Dr. Philip Ente has received a two-year grant to scientifically prove that dogs can tell when a seizure will occur. Dr. Ente, a clinical professor and a diplomate of the ...
An international research team from the fields of veterinary medicine and genetics has developed a new survey tool to advance canine epilepsy diagnosis and research. Epilepsy and dyskinesia are canine ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a drug to control seizures in dogs with idiopathic epilepsy, a type of seizure disorder without a known cause. The drug, KBroVet, is only ...
Researh groups from the University of Helsinki, the LMU Munich and the University of Guelph have described in collaboration a novel myoclonic epilepsy in dogs and identified its genetic cause. The ...
Seizure alert dogs are working partners trained to notice subtle shifts in scent, movement, or behavior that often happen minutes before a seizure. That warning can give someone time to sit down, take ...
When Yogi, a French Bulldog had a dangerous seizure at home, help didn’t come from a human, but from his unlikely hero: Reggie, his Boxer fursibling. With no one else around, Reggie stepped up in the ...
(WECT) - There are dogs who are specially trained to assist people who have epileptic seizures. America's interest in seizure dogs began when a woman with epilepsy got involved in a prison project ...