The Effect of Nutrition on Inflammation & Inflammatory Conditions that Impact Behavior

Low-grade chronic inflammation is known to lead to changes in cognitive and emotional processing within the brain. These changes are associated with behavioral change, which is sometimes the only outward sign of the change in inflammatory status. In addition, many disease states are also known to be underpinned by low-grade inflammation.
Nutrition and diet can change the levels of inflammatory mediators (or biological chemicals) in the body - having both anti-inflammatory effects but also pro-inflammatory effects depending on the type, presentation, and amounts of nutritional components within a diet.
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The seminar is suitable for pet owners, veterinary professionals, animal trainers, animal behaviorists, pet guardians, and anyone with an interest in the neuroscience of training and behavior. 

1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available
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In This Webinar:

Nutrition and diet can change the levels of inflammatory mediators (or biological chemicals) in the body - having both anti-inflammatory effects but also pro-inflammatory effects depending on the type, presentation, and amounts of nutritional components within a diet.

These dietary effects can be direct, due to the components and constituents of the diet, but also indirectly via effects on the microbiome. This area of research is fascinating, not only because of the negative effects low-grade chronic inflammation can have on many disease states but also because of the connection between inflammatory state, nutrition, stress, disease, and behavior.

This webinar will take a look at this topic across a range of species, with a focus on dogs but including other domesticated animals also. Examining the impact of nutrition on inflammatory mediator production and the microbiome. The more we learn about this exciting topic, the more accurately we can make informed nutritional choices for our pets and other animals. 

Learning Objectives:
  • Attendees will gain an understanding of the interconnection between diet, nutrition, behavior, disease status, and stress.
  • Attendees will gain an understanding of some of the ways in which diet can impact physiological and psychological processes.
  • Attendees will be able to apply the knowledge they gain to existing knowledge and expertise, in order to enhance the advice they are able to give clients about individualized nutritional care for their pets.
Meet the instructor

Kathy Murphy BVetMed, DPhil, CVA, CLAS, MRCVS

Kathy Murphy (BVetMed, DPhil, CVA, CLAS, MRCVS) is a veterinary surgeon and neuroscientist. She recently joined the Behavior Vets team as the Chief Scientific Officer.

She graduated from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons UK in 1999, initially working in mixed clinical practice before studying for two postgraduate clinical qualifications. In 2009 she was awarded a highly prestigious Welcome Research Training Fellowship to study for her Ph.D., in Behavioral Neuroscience, at The Queens College, University of Oxford, UK. She subsequently worked in the USA as Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Anesthesiology at the Icahn School of Medicine NYC; and is now back in the UK, where she holds a clinical-academic position as Director of the Comparative Biology Centre at Newcastle University and Director of Barking Brains Ltd (a neuroscience outreach program for the animal behavior and training community). Her clinical interest has always been anesthesia, and analgesia, since the age of 13yo and she has recently completed a residency at the European College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia.

In addition to her primary career roles she was Trustee and Veterinary Advisor to the Rottweiler Welfare Association for 14 years, is a founder of Ethics First (a collective that lobbies for ethical decision-making in clinical practice), and is an Oversight Committee Member for the UK Dog Behavior and Training Charter, sits on numerous National and International boards, working groups and ethical review panels, and most of all love spending time with her own 5 dogs and her husband.
Patrick Jones - Course author