Dr. McNamara’s CV

Patrick McNamara, Ph.D.
Email: mcnamar@bu.edu

Boston University School of Medicine
Department of Neurology
72 East Concord St., Robinson Bldg., B528
Boston, MA 02118
Telephone: 617.414.1006 Fax: 617.414.1008

Department of Neurology (127)
Boston VA Healthcare System, Jamaica Plain Campus
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
Telephone: 857.364.5007 Fax: 857.364.4454

COUNTRY OF BIRTH
United States of America, U.S. Citizen

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1991-1993 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Aphasia Research Center, Boston VA Medical Center

1991 Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscience (Human Neuropsychology), Boston University

1986 B.A., Psychology, Boston University

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2005-present Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory, Boston University School of Medicine

2000-2005 Research Scientist, VA New England Healthcare System

1996-1999 Manager, Research Department, Partnership for Organ Donation, Boston, MA

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2007-present Associate Professor, Department of Neurology & Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine

2000-2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine

1999-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Boston University School of Medicine

1994-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, State University College at Buffalo, NY

MEMBERSHIPS TO PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

2009-2010 Movement Disorders Society

2008-2010 American Academy of Sleep Medicine

2008-2010 American Psychological Association, Division 36, Psychology of Religion

2008-2010 American Psychological Association

2008-2010 American Academy of Neurology Professional Association

2007-2008 Human Behavior and Evolution Society

2007-2008 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

2007-2008 International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion

2007-2010 American Academy of Neurology

2007-2010 International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

2005-2010 American Psychological Society

2004-2010 Sleep Research Society

2000-2010 Association for the Study of Dreams

1995-2010 International Neuropsychological Society

2005 Human Behavior and Evolution Society

1997-2004 Association of Health Services Research

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2000-present Training of student interns, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, Boston University

2000-present Advisor on Masters Theses in the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, Boston University

INTRAMURAL TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2008, Health Forum Online, Biobehavioral pathways that mediate the effects of spirituality and religion on health

2008, Health Forum Online, Sleep disorders: Distressing dreams and nightmares from childhood to old age – When to worry about them and how to intervene

REVIEW SERVICE

2008-present Consciousness & Cognition

2008-present Neuropsychology Review

2008-present Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses

2004-present Sleep and Hypnosis

2006 International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

2006 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2006 Institute for Mental Health Research

2005 Current Anthropology

2005 Journal Nervous and Mental Disease

2005 Journal of Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

2004 Journal of Neurolinguistics

GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISEMENT
Ph.D. Theses – Boston University, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, Ph.D. in Behavioral Neurosciences

1. First Reader, Dissertation, Erica Harris, MPH
Title: Neurocognition and Self-Regulation of the Agentic Self in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
Expected Date of Graduation: May 2011

2. First Reader, Dissertation, Paul Butler, MTS
Title: Religious Cognition in Parkinson’s Disease
Graduation Date: May 2010

Masters Theses – Boston University, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, Master of Arts in Medical Sciences

1. First Reader, Masters Thesis, Noël Warwick
Bio-Behavioral Correlates of Mother-Infant Co-sleeping
Expected Date of Graduation: 2008

2. First Reader, Masters Thesis, Noelle Ebel
Sleep Spindle Activity in Non-REM and Its Relation to Procedural Memory in Parkinson’s Disease
Graduated: 2007

3. First Reader, Masters Thesis, Manish Ramani
Theory of Mind Impairments in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Relation to Frontal Function
Graduated: 2007

4. First Reader, Masters Thesis, Priti Nath
Personality in Parkinson’s Disease
Graduated: 2005

5. First Reader, Masters Thesis, Justin Gan
The Relationship of Sleep States to Suicide
Graduated: 2003

6. First Reader, Masters Thesis, Emily Benson
Pain in Memory
Graduated: 2002

7. First Reader, Masters Thesis, Jayme Dowdall
REM Sleep and Attachment
Graduated: 2001

PREVIOUS RESEARCH GRANTS

2007-2010 NIDCD: Pragmatic Language Skills in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease, $1,361,019

Role: Principal Investigator
Type of Grant: R01
Grant Number: 1R01DC007956-01A3

2007-2009 NIH: REM/NREM Processing Specializations, $346,000

Role: Principal Investigator
Type of Grant: R21
Grant Number: 1R21MH076916-01A2

2007 CTNS/STARS: Intense Experiences and Ultimate Reality, $20,000

Role: Principal Investigator
Type of Grant: Research Planning Grant

2004-2007 NIMH: Phylogeny of Sleep, $1,287,077

Role: Principal Investigator
Type of Grant: R01
Grant Number: 5R01MH070415-01

2000-2004 Merit Review Award: Catecholaminergic contributions to cognitive and affective function in Parkinson’s Disease, $525,000

Role: Principal Investigator
Type of Grant: VA Merit

1998-2000 Templeton Foundation: Frontal lobe mediation of effects of religiosity on health in the elderly, $150,000

Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Type of Grant: Research Grant

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • November 2009: Where god and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion volumes selected to be an element of The International Society for Science and Library Project, Bene’t House, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, UK

PUBLICATIONS
In Review

  1. Pace-Schott, E. F., & McNamara, P. (in review). Sleep architecture and emotional regulation in healthy adults. Motivation and Emotion.

In Press Articles and Chapters

  1. McNamara, P., & Butler, P. M. (in press). The neuropsychology of religious experience. In R. F. Paloutzian & C. L. Park (Eds.), The handbook of the psychology of religion, 2nd ed. New York: The Guilford Press.
  2. McNamara, P., & Burns, J. (in press). Religiosity as protective against addictions in adolescents. In A. Browne-Miller (Ed.), Addictions (4 vols.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

In Preparation Articles

  1. Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., McNamara, P., Preston, B., & Nunn, C. L. (in preparation). Correlated evolution of sleep and activity period in mammals.

Original Articles

  1. McNamara, P., Pace-Schott, E. F., Johnson, P., Harris, E., & Auerbach, S. (2011). Sleep architecture and sleep-related mentation in securely and insecurely attached young people. Attachment and Human Development, 13(2), 141-154. PMID: 21390907
  2. Butler, P. M., McNamara, P., Ghofrani, J., & Durso, R. (2011). Disease-associated differences in religious cognition in patients with Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, iFirst, 1-12.
  3. Butler, P. M., McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (2011). Side of onset in Parkinson’s Disease and alterations in religiosity: Novel behavioral phenotype. Behavioural Neurology, 24(2), 133-141.
  4. McNamara, P. (2011). Response to Taves et al. Religion, 41(1), 97-101.
  5. McNamara, P. (2010). Review of The twenty-four hour mind: The role of sleep and dreaming in our emotional lives by Rosalind Cartwright. Sleep and Hypnosis, 12(1-2), 35-36.
  6. Wildman, W. J., & McNamara, P. (2010). Evaluating reliance on narratives in the psychological study of religious experiences. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 20, 223-254.
  7. Kookoolis, A., Pace-Schott, E. F., & McNamara, P. (2010). Dream content and memory processing: Dream lag effects within a single night and across several nights. Dreaming, 20(3), 211-217.
  8. McNamara, P., Johnson, P., McLaren, D., Harris, E., Beauharnais, C., & Auerbach, S. (2010). REM and NREM sleep mentation. International Review of Neurobiology, 92, 69-86.
  9. McNamara, P. (2010). The neuroscience of religious experience – A response to the Runyan-Kreitzer review. Christian Scholar’s Review, 39(4), 479-481.
  10. McNamara, P., Stavitsky, K., Durso, R., & Harris, E. (2010). The impact of clinical and cognitive variables on social functioning in Parkinson’s disease: Patient versus examiner estimates. Parkinson’s Disease, Article ID263083, 6 pages.
  11. Holtgraves, T., & McNamara, P. (2010). Pragmatic comprehension deficit in Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32(4), 388-397. PMID: 19763993
  12. Holtgraves, T., & McNamara, P. (2010). Parkinson’s disease and politeness. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 29(2), 178-193.
  13. Stavitsky, K., Saurman, J., McNamara, P., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2010). Sleep in Parkinson’s Disease: A comparison of actigraphy and subjective measures. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 16, 280-283.
  14. McNamara, P., Stavitsky, K., Harris, E., Szent-Imrey, O., & Durso, R. (2010). Mood, side of motor symptom onset and pain complaints in Parkinson’s disease. International Journal of Geriatric, 25, 519-524. PMID: 19711336
  15. McNamara, P., Auerbach, S., Johnson, P., Harris, E., & Doros, G. (2010). Impact of REM sleep on distortions of self concept, mood and memory in depressed/anxious participants. Journal of Affective Disorders, 122(3), 198-207. PMID: 19631989
  16. McNamara, P., Burns, J., Johnson, P., & McCorkle, B. H. (2010). How does religiousness protect against risky health behaviors? Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 2(1), 30-34.
  17. Holtgraves, T., McNamara, P., Cappaert, K., & Durso, R. (2010). Linguistic correlates of asymmetric motor symptom severity in Parkinson’s Disease. Brain and Cognition, 72(2), 189-196. PMID: 19751960
  18. McNamara, P., Holtgraves, T. Durso, R., & Harris, E. (2010). Social cognition of indirect speech: Evidence from Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Neurolinguistics Journal of Neurolinguistics, 23(2), 162-171. PMID: 20161657
  19. Butler, P. M., McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (2010). Deficits in the automatic activation of religious concepts in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16(2), 252-261. PMID: 19958570
  20. Bernáth, I., McNamara, P., Szternák, N., Szakács, Z., Köves, P., Terray-Horváth, A., & Vida, Z. (2009). Hyperviscosity as a possible cause of positive acoustic evoked potential findings in patients with sleep apnea. Dual electrophysiological and hemorheological study. Sleep Medicine, 10(3), 361-367. PMID: 18656422
  21. Capellini, I., McNamara, P., Preston, B. T., Nunn, C. L., & Barton, R. A. (2009). Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test. PLoS ONE, 4(2), e4609. PMID: 19240803
  22. Preston, B. T., Capellini, I., McNamara, P., Barton, R. A., & Nunn, C. L. (in press). Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9, 7.
  23. Capellini, I., Nunn, C. L., McNamara, P., Preston, B. T., & Barton, R. A. (2008). Energetic constraints, not predation, influence the evolution of sleep patterning in mammals. Functional Ecology, 22(5), 847-853.
  24. Stavitsky, K., McNamara, P., Durso, R., Harris, E., Auerbach, S., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2008). Hallucinations, dreaming and frequent dozing in Parkinson’s disease: Impact of right-hemisphere neural networks. Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology, 21(3), 143-149. PMID: 18797256
  25. Wildman, W., & McNamara, P. (2008). Challenges facing the neurological study of religious behavior, belief and experience. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 20, 212-242.
  26. Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., Preston, B., McNamara, P., & Nunn, C. L. (2008). Phylogenetic analysis of the ecology and evolution of mammalian sleep. Evolution, 62(7), 1764-1776. PMID: 18384657
  27. Acerbi, A., McNamara, P., & Nunn, C. L. (2008). To sleep or not to sleep: The ecology of sleep in artificial organisms. BMC Ecology, 8, 10. PMID: 18479523
  28. Assal, F., & McNamara, P. (2008). Spatial perseveration in dementia with Lewy bodies. Behavioural Neurology, 18, 235-236. PMID: 18430981
  29. McNamara, P., Capellini, I., Harris, E., Nunn, C. L., Barton, R. A., & Preston, B. (2008). The phylogeny of sleep database: A new resource for sleep scientists. The Open Sleep Journal, 1, 11-14. PMID: 18978959
  30. McNamara, P., Durso, R., & Harris, E. (2008). Alterations of the sense of self and personality in Parkinson’s Disease. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 23(1), 79-84. PMID: 17562520
  31. McNamara, P., McLaren, D., & Durso, K. (2007). Representation of the Self in REM and NREM dreams. Dreaming, 17(2), 113-126. PMID: 19169371
  32. McNamara, P., Durso, R., & Harris, E. (2007). ‘Machiavellianism’ and frontal dysfunction: Evidence from Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12(4), 285-300. PMID: 17558639
  33. McNamara, P., & Szent-Imrey, R. (2007). Costly signaling theory of REM sleep and dreams. Evolutionary Psychology, 5(1), 28-44.
  34. Klein, R., McNamara, P., & Albert, M. L. (2006). Neuropharmacologic approaches to cognitive rehabilitation. Behavioural Neurology, 17, 1-3.
  35. McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (2006). Neuropharmacological treatment of mental dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease. Behavioural Neurology, 17(1), 43-51. PMID: 16720959
  36. McNamara, P., Durso, R., & Harris, E. (2006). Life goals of patients with Parkinson’s disease: A pilot study on correlations with mood and cognitive functions. Clinical Rehabilitation, 20, 818-826. PMID: 17005505
  37. McNamara, P., Durso, R., & Brown, A. (2006). Religiosity in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychiatric Disease & Treatment, 2(3), 341-348. PMID: 19412480
  38. Wegelin, J., McNamara, P., Durso, R., Brown, A., & McLaren, D. (2005). Correlates of excessive daytime sleepiness in Parkinson’s Disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 11(7), 441-448. PMID: 16154796
  39. McNamara, P., McLaren, D., Smith, D., Brown, A. & Stickgold, R. (2005). A “Jekyll and Hyde” within: Aggressive versus friendly social interactions in REM and NREM dreams. Psychological Science, 16(2), 130-136. PMID: 15686579
  40. McNamara, P., Benson, E., McGeeney, B., Brown, A. & Albert, M. (2005). Modes of remembering in chronic pain: Relation to current pain. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 193(1), 53-57. PMID: 15674135
  41. McNamara, P. (2004). Genomic imprinting and neurodevelopmental disorders of sleep. Sleep & Hypnosis, 6(2), 100-108.
  42. McNamara, P., & Albert, M. L. (2004). Neuropharmacology of verbal perseveration. Seminars in Speech & Language, 24(4), 309-321. PMID: 15599821
  43. McNamara, P., Durso, R., & Brown, A. (2003). Relation of ‘sense of self’ to executive function performance in Parkinson’s Disease. Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology, 14, 139-148. PMID: 14501535
  44. McNamara, P., Durso, R., Brown, A., & Lynch, A. (2003). Counterfactual cognitive deficit in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 74, 1065-1070. PMID: 12876235
  45. McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (2003). Pragmatic communication skills in Parkinson’s Disease. Brain & Language, 84, 414-423. PMID: 12662979
  46. McNamara, P., Andresen, J., & Gellard, J. (2003). Relation of religiosity and scores on verbal and non-verbal fluency tests to subjective reports of health in the elderly. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 13(4), 259-271.
  47. McNamara, P., Belsky, J., & Fearon, P. (2003). Infant sleep disorders and attachment: Sleep problems in infants with insecure-resistant versus insecure-avoidant attachments to mother. Sleep & Hypnosis, 5(1), 7-16.
  48. McNamara, P. (2002). The frontal lobes, social intelligence, and religious worship. Ideas for Creative Research in Neurobiology. The John Templeton Foundation (pp. 50-59).
  49. McNamara, P., Durso, R., & Auerbach, S. (2002). Dopaminergic syndromes of sleep, mood and mentation: Evidence from Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. Sleep & Hypnosis, 4(3), 119-131.
  50. McNamara, P., Dowdall, J., & Auerbach, S. (2002). REM sleep, early experience and the development of reproductive strategies. Human Nature, 13(4), 404-435.
  51. McNamara, P., Andresen, J., Arrowood, J., & Messer, G. (2002). Counterfactual cognitive operations in dreams. Dreaming, 12(3), 121-133.
  52. McNamara, P. (2002). The motivational origins of religious practices. Zygon: A Journal of Religion & Science, 37(1), 143-160.
  53. McNamara, P. Andresen, J., Clark, J., Zborowski, M., & Duffy, C. (2001). Impact of attachment styles on sleep and dreams: A test of the attachment hypothesis of REM sleep. Journal of Sleep Research, 10, 117-127.
  54. McNamara, P., Oscar-Berman, M., & Albert, M. (2000). Frontal lobe function and pain in the elderly. Journal of Adult Development & Aging, 7(2), 113-119.
  55. McNamara, P. (2000). Counterfactual thought in dreams. Dreaming, 10(4), 232-245.
  56. McNamara, P., Guadagnoli, E., Evanisko, M. J., Beasley, C., Santiago-Delpin, E. A., Callender, C. O., & Christiansen, E. (1999). Correlates of support for organ donation among three ethnic minorities. Clinical Transplantation, 13, 45-50.
  57. Guadagnoli, E., Christiansen, C., DeJong, W., McNamara, P., Beasley, C., Christiansen, E., & Evanisko, M. (1999). The public’s willingness to discuss their preference for organ donation with family members. Clinical Transplantation, 13, 1-7.
  58. Guadagnoli, E., McNamara P., Evanisko, M., Beasley, C., Callender, C. O., & Poretsky, A. (1999). The influence of race on approaching families for organ donation and their decision to donate. American Journal of Public Health, 89, 244-247.
  59. Beasley, C., Boyle, C., McNamara, P., & Guardino, S. (1999). Estimating the potential effects of donor registries using a simple analytical model. Transplantation Proceedings, 31, 1701-1702.
  60. Evanisko, M., Beasley, C., Brigham, L., Capossela, C., Cosgrove, G.R., Light, J., Mellor, S., Poretsky, A., & McNamara, P. (1998). Readiness of critical care physicians and nurses to handle requests for organ donation. Journal of Critical Care, 7(1), 4-12.
  61. Gortmaker, S.L., Beasley, C.L., Sheehy, E., Lucas, B.A., Brigham, L.E., Grenvik, A., Patterson, R.H., Garrison, R.N., McNamara, P., & Evanisko, M.J. (1998). Improving the request process to increase family consent for organ donation. Journal of Transplant Coordination, 8(4), 210-217.
  62. McNamara P., Franz, H.G., Fowler, R., Evanisko, M.J., & Beasley, C.L. (1997). Medical record review as a measure of the effectiveness of organ procurement practices in the hospital. Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement, 23(6), 321-333.
  63. Zborowski, M., & McNamara, P. (1998). Attachment hypothesis of REM sleep: Toward an integration of psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology and the implications for psychopathology research. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 15(1), 115-140.
  64. McNamara, P., Clark, J., & Hartmann, E. (1998). Handedness and dream content. Dreaming, 8(1), 15-22.
  65. McNamara, P. (1996). Bergson’s theory of dreaming. Dreaming, 6(3), 173-186.
  66. McNamara, P., Clark, J., Krueger, M., & Durso, R. (1996). Grammaticality judgments and sentenc comprehension in Parkinson’s disease: A comparison with Broca’s aphasia. International Journal of Neuroscience, 86, 151-166. PMID: 8828068
  67. McNamara, P. (1996). REM sleep: A social bonding mechanism. New Ideas in Psychology, 14(1), 35-46.
  68. McNamara, P. (1996). Bergson’s “Matter and Memory” and modern selectionist theories of memory. Brain & Cognition, 30, 215-231.
  69. McNamara, P., von Harscher, H., Scioli, T., Krueger, M., Lawson, D., & Durso, R. (1995). The sense of self after brain damage: Evidence from aphasics and individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Cognitive Rehabilitation, November/December, 16-23.
  70. Frazier, L., & McNamara, P. (1995). Favor referential representations. Brain & Language, 49, 224-240.
  71. McNamara, P. (1994). Memory, double, shadow and evil. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 39, 233-251.
  72. McNamara, P., Blum, D., O’Quin, K., & Schachter, S. (1994). Markers of cerebral lateralization and alcoholism. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 79, 1435-1440.
  73. McNamara, P., Flannery, K., Obler, L., & Schachter, S. (1994). Special talents in Geschwind and Galaburda’s theory of cerebral lateralization: An examination in a female population. International Journal of Neuroscience, 78, 167-176.
  74. Tanaka, Y., Miyazaki, M., Kuzuhara, S., McNamara, P., & Albert, M. (1993). The relation between pain and cerebral hemisphere. Neurological Medicine (Tokyo), 39(3), 263-268.
  75. Staveley, H., & McNamara, P. (1993). Warwick Fox’s “Transpersonal Ecology”: A critique and alternative approach. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 24(2), 201-211.
  76. McNamara, P., Obler, L., Au, R., Durso, R., & Albert, M. (1992). Speech monitoring skills in Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s disease and normal aging. Brain & Language, 42, 38-51.
  77. Shapiro, L., McNamara, P., Zurif, E., Lanzoni, S., & Cermak, L. (1992). Processing complexity and sentence memory: Evidence from amnesia. Brain & Language, 42, 431-453.
  78. McNamara, P. (1992). A transpersonal approach to memory. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 24(1), 61-78.
  79. McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (1991). Reversible Othello syndrome in a man with Parkinson’s disease. American Journal of Geriatric Neurology & Psychiatry, 4(3), 157-159.

Book Chapters

  1. McNamara, P., & Butler, P. M. (2011). De-personalization and the psychobiology of evil. In J. Harold Ellens (Ed.), Explaining evil: Volume I: Definitions and development (pp. 50-63). Praeger, CT: Greenwood Press.
  2. Butler, P. M., & McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2011). Epigenetic and gene imprinting effects in Parkinson’s disease: A kinship theory of gene conflict in aging and dementia. In P. McNamara (Ed.), Dementia: Volume 2: Science and biology (pp. 25-87). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.
  3. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2011). Religious coping strategies in healthy elderly and in those at risk for dementia. In Dementia: Volume 3: Treatments and developments (pp. 119-134). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.
  4. McNamara, P. (Ed.), & Auerbach, S. (2010). Evolutionary medicine of sleep disorders: Toward a science of sleep duration. In P. McNamara, C. L. Nunn, & R. A. Barton (Eds.), Evolution of sleep: Phylogenetic and functional perspectives (pp. 107-122). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  5. Nunn, C. L., McNamara, P. (Ed.), Capellini, I., Preston, B. T., & Barton, R. A. (2010). Primate sleep in phylogenetic perspective. In P. McNamara, C. L. Nunn, & R. A. Barton (Eds.), Evolution of sleep: Phylogenetic and functional perspectives (pp. 123-144). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  6. Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., McNamara, P. (Ed.), Preston, B. T., & Nunn, C. L. (2010). Ecological constraints on mammalian sleep architecture. In P. McNamara, C. L. Nunn, & R. A. Barton (Eds.), Evolution of sleep: Phylogenetic and functional perspectives (pp. 12-33). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  7. McNamara, P., & Butler, P. M. (2009). The evolution of sleep and dreams. In S. Krippner & D. J. Ellis (Eds.), Perchance to dream: The frontiers of dream psychology (pp. 1-12). New York: Nova Publishers.
  8. Harris, E., & McNamara, P. (2009). Neurologic constraints on evolutionary theories of religion. In E. Voland & W. Schiefenhövel (Series Eds.), The biological evolution of religious mind and behavior, The frontiers collection (pp. 205-215). Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
  9. Harris, E. (Ed.), & McNamara, P. (2008). Is religiousness a biocultural adaptation? In J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, R. Genet, E. Harris, K. Wyman, & C. Genet (Eds.), The evolution of religion: Studies, theories, and critiques (pp. 69-75). Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
  10. McNamara, P., & Szent-Imrey, R. (2007). Understanding miracles in relationship to standard religious experiences. In J. H. Ellens (Ed.), The psychology and science of miracle healing: Volume I: Religious and spiritual events. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
  11. McNamara, P. (Ed.), McLaren, D., Kowalczyk, S., & Pace-Schott, E. (2007). ‘Theory of Mind’ in REM and NREM dreams. In D. Barrett & P. McNamara (Eds.), The new science of dreaming: Volume I: Biological aspects (pp. 201-220). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.
  12. McNamara, P., Nunn, C., Barton, R., Harris, E., & Capellini, I. (2007). Phylogeny of sleep and dreams. In D. Barrett & P. McNamara (Eds.), The new science of dreaming: Volume I: Biological aspects (pp. 53-70). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.
  13. McNamara, P. (Ed.), Harris, E., & Kookoolis, A. (2007). Costly signaling theory of dream recall and dream sharing. In D. Barrett & P. McNamara (Eds.), The new science of dreaming: Volume III: Cultural and theoretical perspectives (pp. 117-132). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.
  14. Emmons, R., & McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2006). Sacred emotions and affective neuroscience: Gratitude, costly-signaling, and the brain. In P. McNamara (Ed.), Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume I: Evolution, genes, and the religious brain (pp. 11-30). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.
  15. Park, C., & McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2006). Religion, meaning, and the brain. In P. McNamara (Ed.), Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume III: The psychology of religious experience (pp. 67-89). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.
  16. Paloutzian, R., Swenson, E., & McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2006). Religious conversion, spiritual transformation, and the neurocognition of meaning making. In P. McNamara (Ed.), Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume II: The neurology of religious experience (pp. 151-169). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.
  17. McNamara, P. (Ed.), Durso, R., Brown, A., & Harris, E. (2006). The chemistry of religiosity: Evidence from patients with Parkinson’s disease. In P. McNamara (Ed.), Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume II: The neurology of religious experience (pp. 1-14). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.
  18. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2006). The frontal lobes, and the evolution of cooperation and religion. In Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume II: The neurology of religious experience (pp. 189-204). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.
  19. McNamara, P., Durso, R., & Harris, E. (2006). Frontal lobe mediation of the sense of self: Evidence from studies of patients with Parkinson’s disease. In A. P. Prescott (Ed.), The concept of self in medicine and health care (pp. 143-161). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
  20. McNamara, P., & Albert, M. (2003). Pharmacotherapy of cognition. In K. Heilman & E. Valenstein (Eds.), Clinical neuropsychology (4th ed., pp. 640-656). New York: Oxford.
  21. Oscar-Berman, M., & McNamara, P. (2001). Cognitive changes in aging alcoholics. In R.R. Watson (Ed.), Alcohol and substance abuse in the aged (pp. 21-40). New York: CRC Press.
  22. McNamara, P. (2001). Religion and the frontal lobes. In J. Andresen (Ed.), Religion in mind (pp. 237-256). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  23. Oscar-Berman, M., & McNamara, P. (2001). Brain injuries. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemeroff (Eds.), The Corsini Encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science (3rd ed., vol. 1, pp. 236-237). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
  24. Oscar-Berman, M., & McNamara, P. (2001). Central nervous system disorders. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemeroff (Eds.), The Corsini Encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science (3rd ed., vol. 1, pp. 265-267). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
  25. McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (2000). Language functions in Parkinson’s Disease: Evidence for a neurochemistry of language. In L. Obler & L.T. Connor (Eds.), Neurobehavior of language and cognition: Studies of normal aging and brain damage (pp. 201-212). New York, NY: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  26. Helander, K., McNamara, P., Franz, H., & Beasley, C. (1999). Best demonstrated practices in organ donation: Meeting the challenge of the new HCFA regulations. In J. Burns & L.M. Northrup (Eds.), Hospital strategies (pp. 111-140). New York: Faulkner and Gray, Inc.
  27. McNamara P., & Beasley, C. (1997). Determinants of familial consent to organ donation in the hospital setting. In Cecka & Terasaki (Eds.), Clinical transplants 1997 (pp. 219-229). Los Angeles: UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory.
  28. Mimura, M., McNamara, P., & Albert, M. (1995). Towards a pharmacotherapy for aphasia. In H. Kirshner (Ed.), Handbook of neurological speech and language disorders (pp. 465-482). New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
  29. Oscar-Berman, M., McNamara, P., & Freedman, M. (1991). Delayed response tasks: Parallels between experimental ablation studies and findings in patients with frontal lesions. In H. S. Levin & H. M. Eisenberg (Eds.), Frontal lobe function and injury (pp. 230-255). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Encyclopedia Entries

  1. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). REM sleep properties. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  2. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Costly signaling theory. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  3. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Sleep and growth hormone. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  4. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). REM sleep-related motor paralysis. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  5. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Counterfactuals in dreams. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  6. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Involuntary nature of dreaming. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  7. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). The dream and play. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  8. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Awakenings protocol. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  9. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Sleep disturbances in post traumatic stress disorder. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  10. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Sleep problems among veterans of foreign wars. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  11. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Antrobus’ (1983) word information count (WIC). In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  12. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Sleep diaries. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  13. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Neuroanatomy of REM sleep and depression. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  14. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Sleep intensity and the homeostatic regulation of sleep. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  15. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Evolutionary approaches to sleep – Part I. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  16. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Evolutionary approaches to sleep – Part II. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  17. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Comparative sleep databases. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  18. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). The phylogeny of sleep database. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  19. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Portable monitoring of sleep. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  20. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). The Pittsburgh sleep quality index. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  21. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Sleep in Parkinson’s disease. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  22. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). REM-NREM dream content specializations. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  23. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Dream characters and philosophy of mind. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  24. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Fetal sleep. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  25. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Kleine-Levin Syndrome. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  26. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (in press). Definition of sleep. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
  27. McNamara, P. (2011). Neurochemistry and language. In P. C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (pp. 557-558). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Published Abstracts from Recent Conference Presentations

  1. Holtgraves, T., McNamara, P., & Harris, E. (2009). Parkinson’s disease and politeness. Poster presented at the XVIII WFN Congress on Parkinson’s Disease & Related Disorders, Miami Beach, FL, December 14, 2009.
  2. Holtgraves, T., McNamara, P., & Harris, E. (2009). Pragmatic comprehension deficit in Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented at the XVIII WFN Congress on Parkinson’s Disease & Related Disorders, Miami Beach, FL, December 14, 2009.
  3. Abrams, E., & McNamara, P. (2009). Overgeneral memories are more frequent after REM than NREM sleep awakenings. Poster presented October 16, 2009 at the UROP Symposium at Boston University, Boston, MA.
  4. McNamara, P., Auerbach, S., Johnson, P., Harris, E., & Doros, G. (2009). REM and NREM-related memory and mood regulation in healthy adults. Poster presented at the 2009 SLEEP Conference on June 9, 2009 in Seattle, WA.
  5. McNamara, P., Auerbach, S., Johnson, P., Harris, E., & Doros, G. (2009). REM and NREM-related mood regulation in unmedicated anxious depression. Poster presented at the 2009 SLEEP Conference on June 9, 2009 in Seattle, WA.
  6. Auerbach, S., McNamara, P., Johnson, P., Harris, E., & Doros, G. (2009). Sex differences in sleep-related memory and mood regulation. Poster presented at the 2009 SLEEP Conference on June 10, 2009 in Seattle, WA.
  7. Butler, P., McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (2009). Parkinson’s dsease and religiosity: Deficits in the automatic activation of religious concepts. Poster presented June 9, 2009 at The Movement Disorders Society’s 13th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders in Paris, France.
  8. Butler, P., McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (2009). Parkinson’s disease and intentionality: Defictis in representation of intention. Poster presented June 9, 2009 at The Movement Disorders Society’s 13th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders in Paris, France.
  9. Harris, E., McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (2009). Self-complexity in Parkinson’s disease is predicted by depression. Poster presented June 9, 2009 at The Movement Disorders Society’s 13th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders in Paris, France.
  10. Stavitsky, K., Griffin, E., Ansok, C., McNamara, P., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2009). Objective measures of sleep quality and cognitive performance in Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented February 11-14, 2009 at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in Atlanta, GA.
  11. Beauharnais, C., & McNamara, P. (2008). Emotional memory processing in REM and NREM sleep states. Poster presented October 17, 2008 at the UROP Symposium at Boston University, Boston, MA.
  12. McNamara, P., Stavitsky, K., Van Doren, V., Harris, E., & Durso, D. (2008). Theory of mind deficits predict anxiety and depression in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented June 19, 2008 at the 6th Annual Conference and Workshops of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, Boston, MA.
  13. McNamara, P., Harris, E., & Durso, R. (2008). Attention, emotion and language in patients with right versus left-onset Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented June 19, 2008 at the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
  14. McNamara, P., Auerbach, S., Harris, E., & Durso, R. (2008). REM sleep-related mood regulation in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented June 19, 2008 at the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
  15. McNamara, P., Kookoolis, A., Warwick, N., & Van Doren, V. (2008). The human ecology of sleep: Cross-cultural co-sleeping and childcare patterns. Poster presented April 8, 2008 at the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, OH.
  16. Stavitsky, K., McNamara, P., Durso, R., Harris, E., Auerbach, S., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2007). Side of motor symptom onset and frequency of reported sleep disturbances in Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented November 5, 2007 at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
  17. Johnson, P., & McNamara, P. (2007). Access to social action scripts in Parkinson’s disease: Relation to side of onset. Poster presented October 19, 2007 at the UROP Symposium at Boston University, Boston, MA.
  18. McNamara, P., Varghese, S., Harris, E., & Durso, R. (2007). Distressing dreams and nightmares in non- demented Parkinsonian patients is associated with reduced slow wave sleep and frontal dysfunction. Poster presented June 12, 2007 at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC.
  19. McNamara, P., Ramani, M., Harris, E., & Durso, R. (2007). Emotion recognition and theory of mind abilities in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented March 2, 2007 at The New England Science Symposium, Boston, MA.
  20. McNamara, P., Durso, R., Harris, E., Johnson, P., & Sarmiento, J. (2007). Procedural and conversational discourse skills in Parkinson’s disease: Relation to side of onset. Poster presented May 1, 2007 at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Boston, MA.
  21. McNamara, P., Harris, E., Szent-Imrey, R., & Durso, R. (2007). Relation of mood and cognitive deficits to sleep disturbances in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented May 3, 2007 at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Boston, MA.
  22. Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., Preston, B. T., McNamara, P., & Nunn, C. L. (2007). Ecological constraints and the evolution of sleep architecture in mammals. Poster presented December 11-14, 2007 at Goettinger Freilandtage, ‘Primate Behaviour and human universals’, in Goettingen, Germany.
  23. Preston, B. T., Capellini, I., McNamara, P., Barton, R. A., & Nunn, C. L. (2007). Sleep and the mammalian immune system. Poster presented at the 11th Congress for the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, August 20-25, 2007, Uppsala, Sweden.
  24. Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., Preston B. T., McNamara, P., & Nunn, C. L. (2007). Phylogenetic comparative analysis of the ecological constraints of sleep in mammals. Poster presented June 16-20, 2007 at the Evolution Meeting 2007, Christchurch, New Zealand.
  25. Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., McNamara, P., & Nunn, C. L. (2006). Phylogenetic comparative analysis of the correlates of sleep in mammals. Poster presented July 23-29, 2006 at the 11th Conference of the International Society of Behavioural Ecology, Tours, France.
  26. Harris, E., McNamara, P., Brown, A., & Durso, R. (February 2006). Elevated ‘Machiavellianism’ in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, MA.
  27. Nath, P., Harris, E., McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (February 2006). Neuropsychologic correlates of high harm avoidance in Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, MA.
  28. Sparko, A. L., Brown, A., Durso, A., & McNamara, P. (March 2005). On the abilities of patients with prefrontal neuropsychologic dysfunction (Parkinson’s Disease (PD)) to detect deceptive messages: A pilot investigation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.
  29. McNamara, P., Brown, A., Benson, E., Albert, M. L. & McGeeney, B. (February 2004). Memory retrieval, chronic pain, and frontal system function. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Baltimore, MD.
  30. McNamara, P., Brown, A., Chapman, G., Durso, R. (February 2004). Verbal perseverations in patients with Parkinson’s disease: Relation to deficits in cognitive planning. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Baltimore, MD.

Recent Oral Conference Presentations

  1. Harris, E., & McNamara, P. (2009). Emotional memory processing in REM and NREM sleep states. Presented January 27, 2009 at the Manchester Essex High School, Manchester, MA.
  2. Burns, J. P., & McNamara, P. (2008). Putnam: The birth of scientific neurology and psychology in Boston. Poster presented at the 116th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
  3. Harris, E., & McNamara, P. (2007). Neurologic constraints on evolutionary theories of religion. Paper presented September 29, 2007 at the ‘On the Biological Evolution of Religiosity’ Conference at the Hanse-Wissenshaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Studies in Delmenhorst, Germany.
  4. Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., Preston B. T., McNamara, P., & Nunn, C. L. (2008). Evolution of sleep architecture in mammals. Invited seminar March 4, 2008 at the University College, Dublin, Ireland.
  5. Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., Preston B. T., McNamara, P., & Nunn, C. L. (2007). Phylogenetic comparative analysis of the ecological constraints of sleep in mammals. Paper presented September 2007 at the ASAB conference ‘From animals to humans and back again’, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
  6. Harris, E., & McNamara, P. (2007). Is religiousness a biocultural adaptation? Paper presented January 4, 2007 at the Evolution of Religion Conference, Oahu, Hawaii.
  7. Capellini, I., Nunn, C. L., McNamara, P., & Barton, R. (2007). Phylogenetic comparative analysis of the correlates of sleep in mammals. Paper presented September 4-7, 2007 at the II Meeting of the Italian Society of Evolutionary Biology, Florence, Italy.

BOOKS

Primary Author

  1. McNamara, P. (in press). The cognitive neuropsychiatry of Parkinson’s Disease. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  2. McNamara, P. (in press). Spirit possession and history: History, psychology, and neurobiology. Westford, CT: ABC-CLIO.
  3. McNamra, P. (2009). The neuroscience of religious experience. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  4. McNamara, P. (2008). Nightmares: The science and solution of those frightening visions during sleep. Westport, CT: Praeger Perspectives.
  5. McNamara, P. (2004). An evolutionary psychology of sleep and dreams. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press.
  6. McNamara, P. (1999). Mind and variability: Mental Darwinism, memory and self. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press.

Co-Authored Books, First Author

  1. McNamara, P., & Trumbull, D. (2007). An evolutionary psychology of leader-follower relations. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Edited Series

  1. McNamara, P., & Wildman, W. (Eds.). (forthcoming, 2012). Science and the world’s religions (3 volumes). Westford, CT: ABC-CLIO.
  2. Barrett, D., & McNamara, P. (Eds.). (forthcoming, 2012). Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams (3 volumes). Westford, CT: ABC-CLIO.
  3. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2011). Dementia (3 volumes). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.
  4. Barrett, D., & McNamara, P. (Eds.). (2007). The new science of dreaming (3 volumes). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.
  5. McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2006). Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion (3 volumes). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.

Radio and Television Appearances

2009, BBC (Horizon TV), ‘Why Do We Dream?’
2009, PBS (NOVA), ‘What are Dreams?’
Sirius Satellite Radio, Fully Alive!, August 19, 2008

Artistic Works Based on McNamara’s Works

  • February 2010, ‘What Dreams May Come,’ a play with Robert Shampain put on by the CFA School of Theatre in cooperation with the COM School of Film and Television and the BU School of Theatre Ensemble
Primary teaching affiliate
of BU School of Medicine