Summary of Topic
This is a mental health condition characterized by excessive fear and worry about being separated from attachment figures, such as parents, caregivers, or siblings
What is separation anxiety?
Another term for excessive salivation
What is drooling?
Disorders affecting this organ system responsible for digesting foods can mimic separation anxiety.
What are GI disorders?
Clomipramine falls under this drug classification
What is a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA)?
Another term for eating less or not at all, respectively
What is hyporexia or anorexia?
Separation anxiety is the ___ most frequently recorded behavioral disorder
What is 2nd (behind aggression)
Another word for sad
What is depressed behavior?
This type of anxiety is due to being stuck in one place without the freedom to access more space.
What is confinement anxiety?
This is the mechanism of action of Fluoxetine.
What is an SSRI (selective Serotonin reuptake inhibitor)?
A high pitched noise, often associated with sadness or concern
What is whining?
There are 2 outcomes to untreated separation anxiety
What are relinquishment or euthanasia
To groom oneself to the extreme
What is self-mutilation?
This behavioral disorder usually occurs in older animals where they begin to lose their sense of their surroundings.
What is cognitive dysfunction syndrome?
This is the route of administration of Fluoxetine
What is orally/enterally?
What is lethargy?
True or False: There is no underlying cause to separation anxiety
False. There is usually some underlying distress, resulting in the anxiety
To produce noise more than normal
What is excessive vocalization?
Another term for failure to finish training your pet to use the bathroom outside.
What is incomplete house training?
True or False: Clomipramine and Fluoxetine are considered chronic/baseline medications
True
A gastrointestinal condition where GI contents are involuntarily removed orally, usually preceded by drooling and lip smacking.
What is vomiting?
True or false: Separation anxiety can be managed with medication and adjunct treatment.
True.
Another way to phrase inappropriate elimination of bodily waste indoors
What is house soiling?
Issues affecting this organ system can mimic separation anxiety due to the pet's undesirable house soiling behavior.
What are urinary tract issues?
This adjunct medical treatment is used to help resolve separation anxiety; a form of training per se.
What are behavioral management programs?
This clinical signs is specific of forebrain dz that presents variably and has an ictal period.
What is a seizure?