Tooley Carrie, Heath Sarah E
Behavioural Referrals Veterinary Practice, Chester CH2 1RE, UK.
Animals (Basel). 2023 Jan 28;13(3):465. doi: 10.3390/ani13030465.
Excessive emotional arousal has been shown to impact physiological health in both veterinary species and human animals. The focus of work in many models of veterinary behavioural medicine has predominantly been associated with reducing activation of the protective emotional systems; in particular, fear-anxiety. The management of the engaging emotional systems of desire-seeking, social play, care and lust has not traditionally been considered in the treatment of physiological health of veterinary species. This article reviews the literature in both veterinary and human fields on the relationship between emotional arousal of both protective and engaging emotional systems and physical health conditions. The current literature describing the regulatory control of sleep on emotional arousal is also discussed. An exemplary case report of a seven month old male entire Cocker Spaniel showing fly-snapping behaviour which had been non-responsive to leviteracetam (Keppra) is presented. The emotional health assessment and treatment of this case is described along with the short and long term (fourteen month follow up) outcomes to demonstrate that some patients presenting in this way can be effectively managed with an appropriate behavioural medicine treatment plan. The authors put forward the argument that an emotional health assessment should be considered an essential component of the work up of all such cases.
过度的情绪唤起已被证明会影响兽医领域的物种和人类的生理健康。在许多兽医行为医学模型中，工作重点主要与减少保护性情绪系统的激活有关；特别是恐惧 - 焦虑。传统上，在治疗兽医物种的生理健康时，并未考虑对寻求欲望、社交玩耍、关爱和性欲等引人入胜的情绪系统的管理。本文回顾了兽医和人类领域中关于保护性和引人入胜的情绪系统的情绪唤起与身体健康状况之间关系的文献。还讨论了当前描述睡眠对情绪唤起的调节控制的文献。本文展示了一个七个月大的雄性可卡犬的典型病例报告，该犬表现出飞捕行为，对左乙拉西坦（开浦兰）无反应。描述了该病例的情绪健康评估和治疗以及短期和长期（十四个月随访）结果，以证明一些以这种方式出现的患者可以通过适当的行为医学治疗计划得到有效管理。作者提出论点，认为情绪健康评估应被视为所有此类病例检查的重要组成部分。
