The Parietal Lobe

Section I. Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of the Parietal Lobe1. The history of the neurophysiology and neurology of the parietal lobe2. The evolution of the parietal lobe: Rats, monkeys, apes and humans3. Cortico-cortical and cortico-subcortical connections of the parietal lobe4. Somatosensory maps5. The parietal lobe and pain perception6. The parietal lobe and the vestibular system7. Multisensory and sensorimotor maps8. Extinction as a deficit of the decision making circuitry in the posterior parietal cortex

Section II. Neurological and Neuropsychological Deficits after Parietal Lobe Damage9. Somatosensory deficits10. Pain syndromes and the parietal lobe 11. Optic ataxia12. Simultanagnosia and Balint's syndrome13. Perceptual deficits of object identification: The apperceptive agnosias14. Unilateral spatial neglect15. Disorders of body knowledge16. Constructional apraxia17. Limb apraxia18. Language deficits19. Memory deficits20. Gerstmann's syndrome21. Parietal lobe epilepsy22. Transcranial stimulations of the parietal lobe for improving neurological deficits

Section III. The Parietal Lobe and Brain Networks for Action and Perception 23. The "dorsal” parietal stream24. Action systems in the human brain25. Parietal lobe and tool use26. Parieto-frontal networks for eye-hand coordination and movements27. The parietal lobe and memory28. The parietal lobe "mirror” neuron system

Giuseppe Vallar, MD, is a neurologist, Professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology in the Department of Psychology, and a member of the NeuroMi, Milan Center for Neuroscience, of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; he is the head of the Neuropsychological Laboratory of the IRCCS Italian Auxological Institute. He has worked in the Universities of Milano, and Sapienza in Rome. His main interests concern human neuropsychology, particularly: spatial and bodily cognition, their disorders (unilateral spatial neglect, somatoparaphrenia), and their neural correlates; the modulation of higher cognitive functions by sensory and transcranial magnetic and electrical stimulation; short-term (immediate) verbal memory, its disorders after brain damage, and its neural correlates; the assessment and rehabilitation of neuropsychological deficits, particularly unilateral spatial neglect. G. Vallar is the author of over 200 scientific publications, the editor of the books The cognitive and neural bases of spatial neglect (2002, with Hans-Otto Karnath and A. David Milner), of Neuropsychological disorders associated with subcortical lesions (1992, with Stefano F. Cappa and Claus W. Wallesch), of Neuropsychological impairments of short-term memory (1990, with Tim Shallice), and of two special issues of the Journal Cortex: Neuroplasticity: behavioral and neural aspects (2014, with Costanza Papagno), and Spatial Neglect. A representational disorder? A Festschrift for Edoardo Bisiach (2004, with John C. Marshall). H. Branch Coslett, MD, is the William N. Kelley Professor of Neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He also serves as Chief of Neurology at the Michael J Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia and previously worked at Temple University School of Medicine. His work has focused on a variety of topics in human cognitive neuroscience as well as non-invasive brain stimulation with