neurology

Narcolepsy is a rapid eye movement (REM) sleep disorder that results in excessive sleepiness and “attacks” of sleep accompanied by rapid eye movements.

Temporohyoid osteoarthopathy (THO) results in bone thickening and fusion of the temporohyoid joint to the skull, potentially causing pain and nerve deficits.

Shivers is a progressive neurologic disease classically characterized by an abnormal gait when backing up.

Cervical vertebral compressive myelopathy (CVCM or CVM) is a developmental defect of the vertebrae in the neck that leads to compression of the spinal cord and damage to spinal cord tracts.

Equine neuroaxonal dystrophy (eNAD) and equine degenerative myeloencephalopathy (EDM) result from abnormalities of specific neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord.

Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis is a debilitating disease. It is caused by the protozoal parasites Sarcocystis neurona and Neospora hughesi.