A study of recent physiological, pharmacological, neurochemical and neurohistological techniques for investigating autonomic disorders, aiming to help the clinician in diagnosis and treatment.

In the five years, since the first edition of this book, advances have been made in physiological, pharmacological, neurochemical and neurohistological techniques for investigating autonomic disorders, which are now increasingly recognized clinically. This book aims to provide practical information to help clinicians in diagnosis and treatment. This new edition describes recent advances in the management of common autonomic disorders in general diseases such as diabetes and alcoholism, as well as in the syndromes of chronic, sub-acute and acute autonomic failure. Attention is also given, beyond the neurological aspects, to sexual and bladder function, the gut, fainting, cardiac arrythmias, pain syndromes, causalgia, sweating disturbances, porphyria, the histochemistry and electronmicroscopy of autonomic ganglia and the new techniques of microneuronography.