Nervous Sensing and Behavior II: The Unhealthy Animal
VETM 5295
4.5 hours
Nervous Sensing and Behavior II: The Unhealthy Animal
Course Description
Integrated and comparative study of abnormalities of the nervous system, sense organs, and behavior occurring in animals, including coordinated concepts or findings from physical examination, historical information, physiology, biochemistry, anatomy, histology, imaging, laboratory values, and pathology.
Athena Title
Nervous Sensing Behavior II
Pre or Corequisite
Enrollment in the second year of the doctor of veterinary medicine curriculum.
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Student learning Outcomes
For the most common clinical and clinicopathological problems associated with the nervous system, sense organs, and behavior across veterinary species, students will understand how to use history and physical examination to generate a prioritized problem list with differential diagnoses.
For the most common clinical and clinicopathological problems associated with the nervous system, sense organs, and behavior across veterinary species, students will understand how to determine appropriate diagnostic tests based on differential diagnoses.
For the most common clinical and clinicopathological problems associated with the nervous system, sense organs, and behavior across veterinary species, students will understand how to explain and perform diagnostic tests and how to interpret results in order to reach a working diagnosis.
For the most common clinical and clinicopathological problems associated with the nervous system, sense organs, and behavior across veterinary species, students will understand how to discuss the underlying pathophysiology of common diseases and compare and contrast with anatomy and physiology of a healthy patient.
For the most common clinical and clinicopathological problems associated with the nervous system, sense organs, and behavior across veterinary species, students will understand how to describe therapeutic, monitoring, management, and will understand preventive approaches to common disease processes including expected outcome and prognosis.
For patients with neurological disease, students will understand how to identify neurological abnormalities and use these to generate a neuroanatomic localization and create a prioritized differential diagnosis list for common diseases that affect each neuroanatomic localization.
Topical Outline
Course introduction
Review of normal physiology and anatomy
Pathophysiology of diseases of the nervous system
Diagnosis and therapy of diseases of the nervous system
