
The Parietal Lobe
Description
Key Features
- Provides a broad overview of the neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and clinical neurology of this region of the cortex
- Offers additional insights regarding the role of the parietal in the cerebral networks for perception and action
- Addresses the most frequent complications associated with damage, including somatosensory, perceptual, language, and memory, deficits, pain, optic ataxia, spatial neglect, apraxia, and more
- Edited work with chapters authored by global leaders in the field
- Presents the broadest, most expert coverage available
Readership
Table of Contents
Section I. Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of the Parietal Lobe
1. The history of the neurophysiology and neurology of the parietal lobe
2. The evolution of the parietal lobe: Rats, monkeys, apes and humans
3. Cortico-cortical and cortico-subcortical connections of the parietal lobe
4. Somatosensory maps
5. The parietal lobe and pain perception
6. The parietal lobe and the vestibular system
7. Multisensory and sensorimotor maps
8. Extinction as a deficit of the decision making circuitry in the posterior parietal cortexSection II. Neurological and Neuropsychological Deficits after Parietal Lobe Damage
9. Somatosensory deficits
10. Pain syndromes and the parietal lobe
11. Optic ataxia
12. Simultanagnosia and Balint’s syndrome
13. Perceptual deficits of object identification: The apperceptive agnosias
14. Unilateral spatial neglect
15. Disorders of body knowledge
16. Constructional apraxia
17. Limb apraxia
18. Language deficits
19. Memory deficits
20. Gerstmann’s syndrome
21. Parietal lobe epilepsy
22. Transcranial stimulations of the parietal lobe for improving neurological deficitsSection III. The Parietal Lobe and Brain Networks for Action and Perception
23. The “dorsal” parietal stream
24. Action systems in the human brain
25. Parietal lobe and tool use
26. Parieto-frontal networks for eye-hand coordination and movements
27. The parietal lobe and memory
28. The parietal lobe “mirror” neuron system
Product details
- No. of pages: 608
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: March 5, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780444636249
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444636225
About the Series Volume Editors
Giuseppe Vallar

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H. Branch Coslett
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Outstanding book
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