Profile
Karen Overall
Name:
Karen Overall
Email:
koverall@upei.ca
Position:
Professor
Department:
Health Management
Phone:
902-566-6483
Building:
Veterinary Medicine 405S
Island Scholar:
Island Scholar Biography
Professor, Health Management
BA, MA, VMD (Pennsylvania), PhD (Wisconsin-Madison), Dipl.ACVB
Research Interests
- Natural canine models of human psychiatric illnesses, particularly those involving aggression and anxiety with effects on cognition
- Re-inventing veterinary medicine with behavior, welfare and humane care as the core foundation that ties disciplines togethe
- Behavioral neurogenetics, neurodevelopment and roles for reactivity and epigenetic effects on behavioral development/expression
- Neuropsychopharmacology
- Behavioral and genetic factors affecting success of working dogs
- Problem-solving in working dogs
- Veterinary behavioral medicine and classification of behavioral pathology
- Mechanistic approaches to behavioral problems
