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As shown in the accompanying program, the speakers will discuss cutting-edge research that focuses on disease mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders involving gastrointestinal neuromuscular function, sensation, psychosocial aspects, brain-gut interactions, and ingestive behavior and its control and treatment. The conference is designed to provide a forum for the presentation, discussion and debate of translational and clinical research in the area of neurogastroenterology and motility, and functional gastrointestinal disorders so that physicians and health care professionals diagnosing and managing patients in this area will be able to draw on the latest evidence-based methods for promoting effective patient outcomes. Neurogastroenetrology & motility disorders encompass a broad spectrum of problems that includes gastroesophageal reflux disease, non-cardiac chest pain, functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, and obesity. These conditions are multifactorial in origin; alterations in brain-gut interactions, as well as in the absorptive, sensory, secretory and motor functions of different regions of the gastrointestinal tract, are considered key underlying pathophysiological mechanisms that constitute more or less accessible targets for therapy. Therapies are directed at the underlying biological mechanisms and psychological disturbances It is important to stress that these four societies are interested in the integration of patient management, and in providing a forum for research scientists and clinicians to work together in an interactive and supportive collaboration as new data become available.

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