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Myoclonic means ‘muscle jerk’. Muscle jerks are not always due to epilepsy (for example, some people have them as they fall asleep). Myoclonic seizures are brief but can happen in clusters (many happening close together in time), and often happen shortly after waking. In myoclonic seizures the person is conscious, but they are classified as generalised seizures. This is because the person is likely to have other seizures (such as tonic clonic seizures)as well as myoclonic seizures. Any questions

MYOCLONUS IN CKCS Myoclonus is defined as a brief, jerk-like movement very similar to an electric shock due to involuntary contraction or relaxation of 1 or more muscles. A freshly published retrospective study in JVIM present a cohort of 39 CKCS with signs consistent with myoclonus of suspected cortical or subcortical origin. Affected CKCS were middle-aged to older with some of themn (13/39) suffering as well from generalised tonic-clonic seizures. In some of these dogs, the jerking movement of