Environmental, individual and triggering aspects of dogs presenting with psychogenic acral lick dermatitis

Behavioural changes in dogs with acral l

Behavioural changes in dogs with acral lick dermatitis during a 2 month extension phase of fluoxetine treatment

✍ Dora Wynchank; Michael Berk 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 74 KB 👁 2 views

Acral lick dermatitis (ALD) is a condition described in dogs that is believed to be an animal model of obsessive± compulsive disorder (OCD) in humans. In both conditions, serotonergic neural dysfunction is believed to be responsible for aberrant grooming behaviour. ALD is the ®rst animal model propo