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Nervous System and Various Disorders

1. You observe a 12-year-old brood mare that dribbles urine and has scalding of the perineum and inner thighs.
What is the name of this condition and what causes it?

  

2. What are the signalment and the clinical signs for Wobbler Syndrome?

  

3. A flighty 3-year-old Arabian stallion rears up and flips over. He cannot get up and appears to be depressed.
How should this animal be treated and what are signs of a worsening prognosis?

  

4. List two neurological diseases in horses that are nutritional in origin.

  

5.You arrive at the barn and find a horse is sweating on one side of his face and neck. What is your diagnosis?

  

6. What questions would you ask the owner of the above horse regarding the history?

  

7. Your 5-year-old thoroughbred horse has developed a wobbly hind over the last few weeks.
What diagnostic tests would you expect the veterinarian to perform?

   

8. What are the hallmark symptoms of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM)? How do you test for it and how do you treat it?