Christophe Faure • Carlo Di Lorenzo
Nikhil Thapar
Editors

2013

Gastrointestinal Motility and
Functional Disorders in Children

In the past 20 years, major advances have been achieved in the care of children with pediatric gastrointestinal motility and sensitivity disorders. This is a reflection of the progress that has been made understanding such conditions at the developmental and molecular level as well as the development of novel tools to investigate and treat them. These progresses have led to the birth of a new “Science”, namely Neurogastroenterology , which is devoted to “study the interface of all aspects of the digestive system with the different branches of the nervous system” and which has now established itself as a major area of clinical practice and research. In the past two decades.