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 ...

Perhaps by reducing anxiety, a service dog can help reduce seizures in people with tough-to-treat epilepsy, a new study finds. A group of 25 study participants had an average 31% fewer seizures after ...

Almost everyone has been touched by, or knows someone, with epilepsy. This complex, serious neurological disorder affects nearly 3 million adults in the U.S., or around 1% of the population – causing ...

Canine epilepsy is a prevalent chronic neurological condition that imposes significant diagnostic, therapeutic, and welfare challenges in contemporary veterinary practice. Its management involves a ...

An international research team from the fields of veterinary medicine and genetics has developed a new survey tool to advance canine epilepsy diagnosis and research. Epilepsy and dyskinesia are canine ...

Question: My dog recently began treatment for epilepsy. He is taking phenobarbital, but I am thinking of taking him off of it. Max doesn't seem like the same dog since beginning this medication. All ...

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 ...

Last night, our three-year-old Shepherd X was in the middle of what looked like a seizure at 1:30 am. He thrashed around and was clearly disoriented. He also peed and drooled a lot. It lasted for ...

Paul Griffin and Suzanne Levin hope going to restaurants and stores with their son, Jake Griffin, will become morehassle-free, now that Gov. Martin O?Malley has signed a new law that will permit ...

POWELL — Epilepsy forced Susan Rand to live a secluded life. For years, she rarely went to a public place alone. "I would never go to the grocery store by myself. I would never wander away from my ...