Neurology
What we do
Our neurology service evaluates, diagnoses, and treats large animal patients with a broad array of diseases that either primarily or secondarily affect the nervous system.
Our Services
Common Causes
If your animal is experiencing neck or back pain, issues with balance, muscle atrophy, weakness, tremors, difficulty swallowing, deafness or blindness, a neurological examination might help to identify and diagnose your animal’s potential disorder.
Some common causes of neurologic disease include:
- Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM)
- Cervical Vertebral Malformation/Cervical Vertebral Instability (CVM/CVI), also known as “Wobbler syndrome”
- Neurologic Lyme disease (neuroborreliosis)
- Trauma
- Degenerative myeloencephalopathies
- Equine Herpes Myeloencephalopathy (EHM)
- West Nile Virus (WNV)
Watch Professor Johnson’s First Tuesday Lecture, “ECVM and Other Neck Abnormalities in Horses.
Also, read about about treatment of Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM).
Our Care Team
Section Chief, Internal Medicine & Ophthalmology
Amy L. Johnson, DVM, DACVIM (LAIM & Neurology)
Professor of Medicine and Neurology; Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of Equine Medicine (CE)
