Neuroanatomy
This cranial nerve that allows dogs to close their eye, retract their lip, and move their ear. It also provides parasympathetic innervation to the lacrimal gland
Facial Nerve or CN VII
This neurotransmitter is released at the preganglionic synapse of both parasympathetic and sympathetic neurons
Acetylcholine
This Hansen type of disk disease is most often associated with acute onset paraparesis in chondrodystrophic breeds of dogs such as Dachshunds.
Type one disk extrusion
Idiopathic epilepsy most frequently begins between this age range.
6 months to 6 years of age
This rapidly progressive generalized peripheral neuropathy is caused by a arachnid neurotoxin that reversibly binds to nerve terminals to prevent the release of acethycholine.
Tick paralysis
This cranial nerve is actually not a peripheral nerve but instead is a tract of the brain with myelin supplied with oligodendrocytes rather than schwann cells.
Optic nerve or CN II
Botulinum neurotoxin prevents the release of this inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system.
glycene and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
This Hansen type of disk disease is most often seen in chronic, progressive paraplegia in non-chondrodystrophic breeds of dogs
Type II disk protrusion
Status eplepticus is defined as this
Status Epilepticus is any prolonged seizure lasting longer than 5 minutes
(ACVIM Consensus Statement on the management of status epilepticus and cluster seizures in dogs and cats)
Megaesophagus is a hallmark of this immune mediated neuromuscular disease.
Myasthenia gravis
You are testing sensation for this peripheral nerve when you pinch a dog's skin on the medial surface of the elbow.
Musculocutaneous
This neurotransmitter is classically associated with pleasure.
dopamine
Cervical vertebral stenosis in large breed dogs is caused by
Type II intervertebral extrusion, vertebral malformation, articular facet proliferation and ligamentous hypertrophy.
This benzodiazepam is water soluble, rapidly diffuses into the CNS and can be administered IM, buccaly or intranasally in dogs without IV access as a first line of therapy for status epilepticus.
Midazolam
Infection by this protozoan parasite often causes stiff stifle syndrome in puppies.
Neospora caninum
Damage to this cranial nerve causes ventrolateral strabismus
Oculomotor or CN III
This excitatory neurotransmitter plays an important role in memory,
Glutamate
Hydrated nucleus pulposus extrusion differs from non-hydrated nucleus pulopsus extrusion in this clinical presentation
HNPE is more acute in onset, typically occurs in older dogs, is often associated with strenuous activity, and animals often improve without surgery.
This antiepileptic drug has a half-life of 28 days when adminstered orally in dogs
Potassium Bromide
This endocrine dysfunction has been associated with both dying back neuropathies as well as primary muscle disease.
Hypothyroidism
Where are the cell bodies located for the preganglionic sympathetic neurons that supply the eye?
Thoracic spinal cord @ T1-2
This neurotransmitter is classically associated with hunger, sleep and arousal
serotonin
In chondrodystrophic breeds, this genetic alteration is associated with dramatically accelerated disk degeneration
Expression of an fibroblast growth fac-
tor 4 (FGF4) retrogene on chromosome 12
This common anticonvulsant has been associated with cytochrome P450 in the liver which influences both the half-life of the anticonvulsant itself as well as other medications administered to the patient.
Phenobarbital
Cats with this endocrine dysfunction often develop a plantagrade stance
Diabetes mellitus,