Pet Owner Educational Atlas. Neurology

Juan José Mínguez Molina; Graduated in Veterinary Medicine by the Complutense University of Madrid in 1995. He obtained a postgraduate degree in Neurology and Neurosurgery I, II and III at the Postgraduate degree at the European School for Advanced Veterinary Studies (ESAVS) in Bern (Switzerland) from 2003 to 2006. Accredited by AVEPA in neurology and neurosurgery in 2013. Since October 2008 he holds a position at the European College of Veterinary Neurology in order to obtain the European Diploma in neurology, rotating his work at the Neurology and Neurosurgery Service of the Veterinary Hospital of Guadiamar in Sanlúcar la Mayor (Sevilla), and at the Veterinary Neurology Center in Getafe (Madrid). In addition to his jobs as clinical neurologist, he participates in research projects collaborating with medical institutions like the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, University Hospital Virgen de la Macarena, and the National Throttle Center. He is author of many different publications and has participated as speaker in various courses and congresses, as well as the Master of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery of the Complutense University of Madrid, teaching issues related to spinal surgery. He is member of the European Society of Veterinary Neurology (ESVN) and the Group of Neurology and Neurosurgery of AVEPA.

1. Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system
• Nervous system (CNS and PNS)
• Nervous system (CNS and PSNS)
• Brain
• Spinal cord
• Cranial nerves
• Reflex arc
• Micturition reflex

2. Clinical evaluation and diagnostic tests
Examination
• Alterations in mental status and level of consciousness
• Abnormal postures
• Postural reactions
• Cranial nerve assessment
• Evaluation of hindlimb and forelimb spinal reflexes
• Other spinal reflexes
Diagnostic tests and techniques
• Collection of cerebrospinal fluid
• Myelography
• Electrophysiological tests
• Other tests

3. Pathologies of the CNS
Epilepsy and related syndromes
• Epilepsy
• Cauda equina syndrome
• Central vestibular syndrome
• Peripheral vestibular syndrome
Compressive lesions of the spinal cord
• Atlantoaxial instability
• Caudal cervical spondylomyelopathy (wobbler syndrome)
• Vertebral malformations
• Herniated disc
• Spinal cord injuries
• Vertebral tumours
Non-compressive lesions of the spinal cord
• Vascular myelopathies
• Aortic thromboembolism
• Infectious inflammation
• Noninfectious inflammation
• Syringohydromyelia
• Spinal dysraphism
• Degenerative myelopathy
Encephalopathy
• Cerebrovascular accident
• Inflammatory encephalopathies
• Hydrocephalus
• Caudal occipital malformation syndrome (COMS)
• Subarachnoid diverticulum
• Hepatic encephalopathy
• Traumatic brain injury
• Brain tumours
• Cognitive dysfunction syndrome
Cerebellar pathologies
• Disorders of the cerebellum
• Cortical cerebellar degeneration
• Idiopathic cerebellitis
Neuro-ophthalmology
• Vision process and its responses
• Ophthalmoscopy and other diagnostic tests
• Horner’s syndrome

4. Pathologies of the PNS
• Classification of pathologies of the PNS
• Inflammatory neuropathies
• Idiopathic facial neuropathy
• Acute idiopathic polyradiculoneuritis
• Lesions of the sciatic and radial nerves
• Brachial plexus avulsion
• Lumbar compression syndrome
• Metabolic neuropathies
• Myasthenia gravis
• Myositis

5. Elimination disorders
• Urination disorders
• Defecation disorders

6. Neurosurgery: surgical techniques
• Rostrotentorial and caudal fossa craniotomy
• Transfrontal and suboccipital craniotomy
• Hemilaminectomy
• Dorsal laminectomy
• Ventral cervical spinal cord decompression
• Corpectomy
• Disc fenestration
• Neurosurgery-associated complications
• Postoperative care