So hello and welcome to this inaugural Small Animal Clinical podcast brought to you from the Royal Veterinary College in London.

My name is Shane and Jasani and I will be your host for these podcasts.

I'm a diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.

And I work on the Emergency and Critical Care Service

in the RVC's Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.

So today for this inaugural podcast, it's my great pleasure to welcome Dr. Holger Volk.

Hello.

Holger is a diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Neurology.

He is head of the Neurology and Neurosurgery Service the cream of the hospital, as well as being clinical director off the hospital. So thanks very

much, Holger, for joining me today. That's a great pleasure. Thank you. So, Hoggar, I thought

we would start off these podcasts by discussing a general approach to seizures in dogs and cats.

We only have about 20 minutes, so it won't be a particularly deep dive into the topic.

But what I hoped we could do is to provide the listeners with the kind of overview of the general approach

and then hopefully come back at a later date and discuss some of the aspects in much more detail.

So I wanted to start with the basics really by asking you, firstly, what a seizure is,

but also how we classify them and actually whether the classification of seizures has changed

at all in the last decade or so.

Okay, we probably could speak about this already for two hours.

A seizure, if you look in the textbooks for definition, there's actually quite a broad

definitions.

I normally don't like to use it.

When you ask students what they normally say is an imbalance between excitation and inhibition,

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