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Treatment of psychogenic leather picking in psittacine birds with a dopamine antagonist
Author(s) -
Iglauer F.,
Rasim R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.1993.tb03550.x
Subject(s) - haloperidol , medicine , dopamine , psychogenic disease , dopamine antagonist , antagonist , anesthesia , psychiatry , receptor
It is suggested that neuropeptides, particularly dopamine, play a role in many self‐mutilating disorders of both man and animals. Two grey parrots (Psittacus erythacus) were treated for obsessive feather picking with the dopamine antagonist, haloperidol. Refeathering was induced and normal behaviour maintained by administering haloperidol at approximately 0·4 mg/kg bodyweight/day for approximately seven months in both birds.