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.

The book is arranged in a logical sequence based on the order of brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous systems. Opening chapters provide a review of pertinent neuroanatomy, a step-by-step guide to neurologic examination, and a brief overview of available neurodiagnostic tests.

Once a neuroanatomic diagnosis is made, readers can consult the appropriate subsequent chapter for specific information required for their clinical case. Disease descriptions are succinct, designed for the busy practitioner, but extensive references are provided for further reading as desired. There are numerous illustrations. Figures and tables.

Contents

1. Functional and dysfunctional neuroanatomy: the key to lesion localization
2. Performing the neurologic examination
3. Neurodiagnostics
4. Encephalopathies: disorders of the brain
5. Head-trauma management
6. Seizures and narcolepsy
7. Disorders of hearing and balance: the vestibulocochlear nerve
8. Cerebellar diseases and tremor syndromes
9. Myelopathies: disorders of the spinal cord
10. Disorders of the cauda equina
11. Neurology and neuropharmacology of normal and abnormal urination
12. Disorders of the peripheral nervous system: mononeuropathies and polyneuropathies
13. Myopathies: disorders of skeletal muscle
14. Junctionopathies: disorders of the neuromuscular junction
15. Nursing care for patients with neurologic disease
16. Pharmacologic management of pain
17. Complementary and alternative therapies for patients with neurologic disease
18. Neurotoxicological syndromes

Index

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