Patrick McNamara (neuroscientist)
{{Short description|American neuroscientist}}
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Patrick McNamara (born 1956) is an American neuroscientist. His work has centered on three major topics: sleep and dreams, religion, and mind/brain.
Biography
In 2022, McNamara, along with Dr. Jordan Grafman of Northwestern University, received a major award from the Templeton Foundation for his seminal contributions to the emerging scientific field of the cognitive neuroscience of religion (See: [https://www.cognitiveneuroscienceofreligion.org/ Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Cognition]){{cite web |url=https://www.cognitiveneuroscienceofreligion.org/ |title=Home |website=cognitiveneuroscienceofreligion.org}}{{cite web | url=https://www.ncu.edu/news/shirley-ryan-abilitylab-and-northcentral-university-receive-63-million-grant-research#gref | title=Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northcentral University Receive $6.3 Million Grant to Research the Neuroscience of Religious Experience | date=31 January 2022 }}
Books
= Published =
- Patrick McNamara, The cognitive neuroscience of religious experience. 2nd edition; Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1108833172
- Patrick McNamara, The neuroscience of sleep and dreams. 2nd edition; Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1316629741
- Patrick McNamara, The cognitive neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's Disease, MIT Press, 2011, {{ISBN|978-0-262-01608-7}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/751977985|title=The cognitive neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's disease | WorldCat.org|oclc=751977985 |accessdate=21 January 2024}}McNamara, P. (2011). The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's Disease. Alice Cronin-Golomb Applied Neuropsychology: Adult Vol. 19, Iss. 4, 2012
- Patrick McNamara, The neuroscience of religious experience, Cambridge University Press, 2009, {{ISBN|978-0521889582}}{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/0048721X.2011.553132 | volume=41 | title=The neural correlates of religious experience | journal=Religion | pages=91–95| year=2011 | last1=Schjoedt | first1=Uffe | s2cid=144891004 }}{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/0048721X.2011.553129 | volume=41 | title=Introduction | journal=Religion | pages=71–73| year=2011 | last1=Taves | first1=Ann | s2cid=219599631 }}
- Patrick McNamara, An evolutionary psychology of sleep and dreams. Cambridge University Press, 2004. {{ISBN|9780275978754}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56097010|title=An evolutionary psychology of sleep and dreams | WorldCat.org|oclc=56097010 |accessdate=21 January 2024}}{{cite journal | pmid=22947819 | volume=8 | issue=4 | title=Strengths and weaknesses of McNamara's evolutionary psychological model of dreaming | year=2010 | journal=Evol Psychol | pages=545–60 | last1 = Olliges | first1 = S | doi=10.1177/147470491000800402| doi-access=free | pmc=10426969 }}
- Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman, Science and the world's religions, Praeger, 2012, {{ISBN|978-0313387326}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768417915|title=Science and the world's religions | WorldCat.org|oclc=768417915 |accessdate=21 January 2024}}
- Patrick McNamara, Where God and science meet : how brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion, Praeger Publishers, 2006, {{ISBN|0275987884}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267128|title=Where God and science meet : how brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion | WorldCat.org|oclc=70267128 |accessdate=21 January 2024}}
- Patrick McNamara, Nightmares : the science and solution of those frightening visions during sleep, Praeger, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0313345128}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213375778|title=Nightmares : the science and solution of those frightening visions during sleep | WorldCat.org|oclc=213375778 |accessdate=21 January 2024}}
- Patrick McNamara, Spirit possession and history: History, psychology, and neurobiology. Westford, CT: ABC-CLIO. 2011.
- Patrick McNamara, Mind and variability: Mental Darwinism, memory and self. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press. 1999.
= Edited =
- Deirdre Barrett and Patrick McNamara, Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams, Greenwood, 2012, {{ISBN|978-0313386640}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/749873296|title=Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams : the evolution, function, nature, and mysteries of slumber | WorldCat.org|oclc=749873296 |accessdate=21 January 2024}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.bumc.bu.edu/len/about-our-research-staff/about-dr-mcnamara/ Official page at Boston University]
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Category:American neuroscientists
Category:Boston University faculty
Category:University of Massachusetts Boston alumni
Category:Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni