Knowing When to Let Go: Owners, Vets, and Pain in Aging Horses

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Get Back On: The Neuroscience of Remounting After a Fall

In this episode Nancy McLean explores a listener question about whether to remount after a fall, using Dr. Stephen Peters’ research and a review by McBride et al. to explain how equine learning, myelination, and long-term potentiation shape behavior. Nancy explains how automatici ...  Show more

The Equine Limbic System

The core of the equine brain’s emotional center, Nancy describes how the neurological processes of the limbic system take place. She also highlights the reward prediction error (RPE) and the impact it has on equine learning.