About Dr. McNamara
Boston VA New England Healthcare System
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
Telephone: 857.364.5007
Fax: 857.364.4454
Patrick McNamara, Ph.D., is Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory in the Department of Neurology at the BU School of Medicine and the VA New England HelathCare System. Upon graduating from the Behavioral Neuroscience Program at Boston University in 1991, he trained at the Aphasia Research Center at the Boston VA Medical center in neurolinquistics and brain-cognitive correlation techniques. He then began developing an evolutionary approach to problems of brain and behavior and currently is studying the evolution of the frontal lobes, the evolution of the two mammalian sleep states (REM and NREM) and the evolution of religion in human cultures. He has published numerous articles and chapters on these topics pioneering the investigation of the role of the frontal lobes in mediation of religious experience. Most recently, he acted as Series Editor for the Praeger series of books on the evolutionary and biological roots of religion (‘project on religion and brain’).
