Mind and matter: Investigating neurological disease in dogs & cats
This veterinary thought exchange online tutored course provides an overview on the different aspects of neurology. You will learn the clinically relevant information that will enable you to recognize a neurological patient and manage the most common neurological conditions with confidence, from beginning to end.
Medical students’ and practitioners’ frequently perceive neurology as the most challenging specialty of all. In fact, the term “neurophobia” exists and indicates a pervasive “fear of neural sciences and clinical neurology” (Moreno-Zambrano et al 2021). Neurology can in my opinion be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. This course lays the foundation of veterinary neurology and those with a special interest will be able to expand their knowledge with a good background.
You will find out how to perform a neurological examination and how to interpret it, so you can neurolocalise accurately. The course will also provide an overview on the most common intracranial, spinal and neuromuscular disorders our pets can suffer from.
The course is run by Josep Brocal (EBVS and RCVS Recognised Specialist in Neurology). The course runs over a 7-week period and takes around 8.5 hours to complete. The course is delivered via video webinars and supplemented with discussion forums giving you the opportunity to ask questions or discuss cases you may be facing in your practice.
Access to this course is for 12 months from the start of the course going live on our website. The discussion forum will be monitored by Josep for the course duration only.
Course Content
- Learn a systematic approach to the neurological examination
- Which tests of the neurological examination should I perform?
- What should each step of the normal neurological examination look like?
- Learn a systematic approach to the neurological examination
- Which tests of the neurological examination should I perform?
- What should each step of the normal neurological examination look like?
- Recognise where different neurological signs neurolocalise too
- Have a basic understanding of neurological pathways
- Provide a neurolocalisation
- What are the most common intracranial diseases?
- Can I distinguish between intracranial diseases without an MRI?
- When should I use corticosteroids and when not?
- General approach to the seizing patient
- Diagnostic work up for seizing patients
- When, why and which treatment should I start?
- Which distinctive combinations of presenting clinical signs exist?
- Should I do any diagnostic tests or just refer for MRI?
- Treatment of the most common spinal cord diseases
- Learn when to suspect and how to recognise neuromuscular diseases
- Distinguishing between neuropathy, myopathy and junctionopathy
- What work-up can a GP do?
Meet the speakers
Josep Brocal
Neurology Specialist