Can your dog read your mind?: Understanding the causes of canine perspective taking.

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Some texts, especially mystical and literary, are so intricate and labyrinthine that can be interpreted differently. These various interpretations sometimes result from the interior aspect of the texts, based on semantical understanding, and sometimes arise from their exterior aspect, based on different ways of reading the texts. Accordingly, while in another article along with other interprete...

“Read” and ‘Tailor’ Your Treatment

Introduction: Thesinonasal tract is an area that may be affected by various types of neoplastic lesions with more variety than what is encountered in other parts of the upper airway and food passage.   Case Report: An elderly gentleman of 65 years complained of nose block on both sides for 3 months. On examination, he had firm polypoidal masses arising from the middle me...

19th Annual Canine Symposium: Your Veterinarian and Your Dog

When to use your head and when to use your heart: the differential value of perspective-taking versus empathy in competitive interactions.

Four studies explored whether perspective-taking and empathy would be differentially effective in mixed-motive competitions depending on whether the critical skills for success were more cognitively or emotionally based. Study 1 demonstrated that individual differences in perspective-taking, but not empathy, predicted increased distributive and integrative performance in a multiple-round war ga...

Canine Thyroid Diagnostic Testing, Interpretation and Dosing

Testing overview for canine thyroid disorder This publication is extracted from Diana Laverdure’s and my book The Canine Thyroid Epidemic: Answers You Need for Your Dog. Thyroid disease is complex and diagnosis of hypothyroidism is difficult to achieve. So, I believe everyone in the veterinary community can benefit from understanding why specific diagnostic tests are necessary in order to make ...