We humans share a lot of similarities with dogs, such as personal preferences, social behaviors, facial expressions, and 80 percent of our DNA. We also have many diseases in common, including epilepsy ...

Epilepsy and dyskinesia are canine neurological disorders with overlapping clinical symptoms. An international team, led by Professor Andrea Fischer, neurologist at LMU's Small Animal Clinic, and ...

I was speaking with my vet team recently and we all agreed that we have seen an increase in the number of pet patients having seizures in the last year. We were discussing some causal factors to see ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dogs rely on scent in ways that still surprise researchers. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared to about 6 million in humans, and can detect smells 10,000 to 100,000 times more ...

Dogs have spent thousands of years adapting to human behavior, so it’s no surprise they sometimes notice changes people miss. One of the most intriguing examples involves a seizure alert. Researchers ...