What diseases can cause neurological signs?
The neurological signs relate to the part of the nervous system that is affected and not to a specific disease. Neurological diseases are initially considered in broad terms as vascular disease (defective blood supply or vessel rupture causing bleeding), inflammatory or infectious disease, traumatic disease (spinal or head trauma, acute ‘slipped disc’), malformation (cyst, hydrocephalus.), metabolic disease (organ dysfunction causing accumulation of substances that are toxic for the brain or insufficient nutrients such as sugar), idiopathic disease (disease caused by a functional problem such as a chemical imbalance or disease for which there is no known underlying cause), neoplastic disease (cancer of the nervous system or spread from a cancer elsewhere in the body), degenerative disease (disease causing degeneration or premature aging of the nervous system). Your vet may be able to narrow down all the potential causes of your pet’s problems by understanding the course of your pet’s p
