[The neurological organisation of vesico-sphincter function (author's transl)]

On the basis of fundamental data drawn from urodynamic study of vesico-sphincter function, the authors begin by a review of the various mechanisms of vesico-sphincter coordination. They then study the neurological control of vesico-sphincter automatic activity. The review of the general organisation of the nervous system is certainly of great value to urologists who are not familiar with neuro-urological problems. This is followed by a more specific study of the neuro-anatomy of the nerve centres and pathways involved in vesico-sphincter automatic activity. Then a review of the reflex centres and their efferent pathways. This is followed finally by a study of integrated reflexes which offers the possibility of an approach to the alternation of phases of filling and micturition, then vesico-sphincter coordination during the phase of filling and the phase of micturition.