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 Dogs May Be Responding To Psychological Seizures,
« Thread Started on Feb 4, 2007, 9:08pm »

Dogs May Be Responding To Psychological Seizures, Not Epilepsy Seizures
Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience News
Article Date: 26 Jan 2007 - 0:00 PST

Reports of dogs that can predict their owners' epilepsy seizures have been anecdotal and not objectively confirmed by doctors and researchers. Some people obtain service dogs trained specifically for people with seizures. In two new studies published in the January 23, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, researchers found that in some cases these dogs are responding to seizures caused not by epilepsy, but by psychological conditions.

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