Pharmacotherapy of behaviour disorders in dogs and cats | Farmakoterapija poremećaja ponašanja pasa i mačaka
2011
Trailović, S.M., Fakultet veterinarske medicine, Beograd (Serbia) | Jezdimirović, M., Fakultet veterinarske medicine, Beograd (Serbia)
Behavioral disorders in dogs and cats require a comprehensive treatment that includes adequate nutrition, defined the relationship with the owner, enriching the content of environment and if necessary pharmacotherapy. Most of the behavioral disorders in animals are usually treated with non-pharmacological methods, but often these treatments are too complicated for the owners and their effects are negligible. In the past pharmacological approach for treating of animal behavior disorders was rarely used until the treatment mainly consisted of application of sedatives. While, today all psychoactive drugs may be prescribed by the veterinarians and their use is increasingly common. The growing use of psychoactive drugs in veterinary medicine caused a rapid development of a special discipline within veterinary pharmacology, clinical psychopharmacology. Psychoactive drugs can be classified in several ways: based on clinical use (antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolitics); based on chemical structure (tricyclic, heterocyclic) or based on neurochemically effects (serotonin reuptake inhibitors, dopamine receptors blockers, etc.). However, from the standpoint of comparative clinical psychopharmacology, psychoactive drugs are divided into: dopaminegic agents, noradrenergic/serotonergic agents, GABA-ergic drugs, anticonvulsants and hormonal substances. Many of these drugs are extensively used in veterinary practice in the world.
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