We humans share a lot of similarities with dogs, such as personal preferences, social behaviors, facial expressions, and 80 percent of our DNA. We also have many diseases in common, including epilepsy ...

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 ...

Pet owners who have witnessed a dog or cat having a seizure know how frightening it can be. Veterinarian Dr. Rebekah Hartfield says understanding what a seizure looks like and knowing how to respond ...

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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a drug to control seizures in dogs with idiopathic epilepsy, a type of seizure disorder without a known cause. The drug, KBroVet, is only ...

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 ...

Dogs rely on scent in ways that still surprise researchers. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared to about 6 million in humans, and can detect smells 10,000 to 100,000 times more ...