Frontmatter -- First-mentioned authors -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Functional visceral disorders -- 1.1 Brain-gut/bladder interactions -- Brain-gut mechanisms of visceral motor activity -- Brain-gut mechanisms of visceral sensitivity -- Psychosocial aspects of the functional gastrointestinal disorders -- Functional esophageal disorders -- Functional dyspepsia -- Functional bowel disorders: are they independent diagnoses? -- Functional bladder disorders -- Pharmacotherapy of altered brain-gut interactions -- Behavioral treatment of altered brain-gut mechanisms -- 1.2 Assessment of visceral sensitivity -- The barostat: a tool to evaluate visceral sensitivity -- Stimulation techniques of the gastrointestinal tract: evaluation of the responses and factors which determine the responses -- Vesico-urethral sensitivity: clinical implications -- Assessment of digestive sensitivity by a reflexologic technique -- 2. Neurogenic visceral dysfunctions -- 2.1 Visceral manifestations in neuro-degenerative diseases -- Gastrointestinal manifestations of movement disorders -- Epidemiology and pathophysiology of gastrointestinal manifestations in Parkinson's disease -- Alteration of alimentary function in primary autonomic failure -- Effect of altered control of the autonomic nervous system on gastrointestinal function -- Neurodiagnostic tests of degenerative diseases -- Diagnostic tests of the autonomic nervous system -- Urinary manifestation of neuro-degenerative diseases -- Cardiac dysautonomia in patients with symptomatic small volume prostatic benign hyperplasia -- Management of gastrointestinal alterations in Parkinson's disease -- Management of swallowing disorders -- Management of lower gastrointestinal alterations in degenerative nervous diseases -- 2.2 Visceral dysfunctions in spinal cord lesions -- Visceral manifestations in spinal cord lesions -- Lower urinary tract dysfunction in spinal cord injury -- Gastrointestinal manifestations in spinal cord lesions -- Management of lower gastrointestinal tract dysfunctions in patients with spinal cord injury -- 3. Gastrointestinal disorders in neuromuscular and neurological diseases in childhood -- Gastrointestinal disorders in neuromuscular and neurological diseases in childhood -- Genetic aspects of myopathies -- Genetics of Hirschsprung's disease -- Diagnosis and management of upper gastrointestinal dysfunctions in children with neurological and neuromuscular diseases -- Diagnosis and management of lower gastrointestinal dysfunctions -- 4. Functional and metabolic aspects of the orthotopic bladder and the urinary diversions -- Bladder replacement: experience with an ileocecal segment with multiple transverse teniamyotomies -- Orthotopic ileal bladder by "Vescica Ileale Padovana" -- Metabolic and colonic mucosal abnormalities following urinary-intestinal diversion -- Digital fluoroangiographic video-urodynamics in the follow-up of the urinary diverted patients -- Index