: Advanced techniques like MRI and CT scans are used to study brain activity and glucose utilization to understand the neurological roots of behavior.
: Veterinarians use a list of 20 critical parameters (e.g., fluid balance, blood pressure, pain) to evaluate critically ill animals at least once daily [39].
Thus, behavioral veterinary science has become a branch of family medicine. Vets now spend as much time counseling owners on environmental enrichment, routine consistency, and stress reduction as they do palpating abdomens.