About the Author

Dr. Overall is a professor of behavioral medicine at the University of Prince Edward Island Atlantic Veterinary College. She is the author of over 100 scholarly publications, dozens of textbook chapters, and numerous texts, and is the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Veterinary Behaviour: Clinical Applications and Research. Dr. Overall has been named the NAVC Small Animal Speaker of the Year and one of the The Bark’s 100 Best and Brightest—the 100 most influential people in the dog world over the past 25 years. Her research focuses on neurobehavioral genetics of dogs, the development of normal and abnormal behaviors with respect to early experience, and psychopharmacology.

Updated February 2022

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