A Practical Guide to Canine and Feline Neurology provides the tools necessary to understand and be clinically proficient with the neurology cases faced in small animal practice.

Highlights of the Second Edition include new coverage of:

• breed predisposition
• signalment and history
• spinal disorders
• expanded coverage of pain management and diagnostic imaging

A Practical Guide to Canine and Feline Neurology maintains its focus on the various neurological disorders and conditions and is organized by disease classification, while also covering important related topics, such as nursing care and complementary/alternative therapies.

Contents

1. Patient Signalment and History: The First Consideration
2. Functional and Dysfunctional Neuroanatomy: The Key to Lesion Localization
3. Performing the Neurologic Examination
4. Neurodiagnostics
5. Encephalopathies: Disorders of the Brain
6. Head-trauma Management
7. Seizures and narcolepsy
8. Disorders of Hearing and Balance: The Vestibulocochlear Nerve
9. Cerebellar Diseases and Tremor Syndromes
10. Myelopathies: Disorders of the Spinal Cord
11. Disorders of the Cauda Equina
12. Spinal Trauma Management
13. Neurology and neuropharmacology of normal and abnormal urination
14. Disorders of the peripheral nervous system: mononeuropathies and polyneuropathies
15. Myopathies: disorders of skeletal muscle
16. Junctionopathies: disorders of the neuromuscular junction
17. Nursing care for patients with neurologic disease
18. Pharmacologic management of pain
19. Complementary and alternative therapies for patients with neurologic disease
20. Neurotoxicological syndromes

Appendix: Color Atlas of Canine Brain Anatomy

Index

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