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Medical cannabis: a viable alternative to treat epilepsy in animals

Epilepsy is a complex brain disease. It is characterized by abnormality in neuronal networks and manifests itself through seizures, which can be motor, autonomic and/or behavioral. Epileptic seizures are episodic and brief. In most cases it is not clear what triggers them (3).
With a prevalence of 0.62-0.75 % in dogs and 1-3 % in cats (3,9,12), epilepsy is recognized as the most common chronic neurological disorder in these species.

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