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 cortex Section 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 deficits Section 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 sakriti opis