Autonomic Disorders in Clinical Practice

Pietro Cortelli, Neurologist with a particular interest in autonomic nervous system assessment particularly in relation to neurodegenerative disorders and with a particular focus on synucleinopathies (Parkinson’s Disease, Pure Autonomic Failure, Multiple System Atrophy, Dementia with Lewy bodies) and in genetic diseases with autonomic failure (ADLD). He is Full Professor of Neurology at the DIBINEM, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, and Director of “Scuola di Specialità in Neurologia” Operative Director of IRCCS ISNB, University of Bologna. Author of more than 570 papers on international peer-reviewed journals and of approx. 70 chapters of books.Max Hilz currently co-chairs the Autonomic Nervous System Subspecialty Panel of the European Academy of Neurology, EAN. He also is Past-President of the German Autonomic Society, Past-President of the European Federation of Autonomic Societies, and Past-Chair of the Autonomic Section of the AmericanAcademy of Neurology. He published more than 300 original and review articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in textbooks and presented his work at several hundred scientific conferences.Prof. Hilz is experienced in the examination of small nerve fiber diseases and disorders of the autonomic nervous system, including hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies, diabetic neuropathies, and Fabry disease, and central autonomic disorders.Giuseppe Micieli is the former head of the Department of Emergency Neurology at the C. Mondino Institute in Pavia from 2009 to 2020. He was previously head of the Emergency Neurology and Stroke Unit at the Humanitas Clinical Institute in Milan and founder of the Stroke Unit at the Mondino Institute in Pavia in 1997. Dr. Micieli has published about 260 papers in English and numerous volumes in both Italian and English; among them, for Springer, the volume Decision Algorithms for Emergency Neurology. Dr. Micieli’s mainareas of interest and research are Cerebrovascular Disease, Emergency Neurology, and the Study of the Vegetative Nervous System.

• Introduction and Central Autonomic Network.- Orthostatic hypotension.- Autonomic dysfunction in hypertension.- Migraine.- Cardiac arrhythmias.- Stroke and cerebrovascular diseases.- Gastro-intestinal autonomic disorders.- Autonomic changes in sleep disorders.- Temporal lobe epilepsy.- Neurologic bladder.- Erectile dysfunction.- Neuropathic pain.- Pupillary and lacrimation changes.- Sweating Disorders.- Iatrogenic and non-iatrogenic neurotoxicology.