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 Psychologist, 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-present Movement Disorders Society
2008-present American Academy of Sleep Medicine
2008-present American Psychological Association, Division 36, Psychology of Religion
2008-present American Psychological Association
2008-present American Academy of Neurology Professional Association
2007-present International Behavioral Neuroscience Society
2007-present Human Behavior and Evolution Society
2007-present Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
2007-present International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion
2007-present American Academy of Neurology
2005-present American Psychological Society
2004-present Sleep Research Society
2000-present Association for the Study of Dreams
1995-present 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 Neuroscience
1. First Reader, Dissertation, Paul Butler
Title: TBD
Expected Date of Graduation: TBD
2. First Reader, Dissertation, Erica Harris, MPH
Title: TBD
Expected Date of Graduation: TBD
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
CURRENT 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: 1R01DC007956-01A2
2007-2009 NIH: REM/NREM Processing Specializations, $346,000
Role: Principal Investigator
Type of Grant: R21
Grant Number: 1R21MH076916-01A2
PREVIOUS RESEARCH GRANTS
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
PUBLICATIONS
Submitted Articles
1. McNamara, P., Auerbach, S., Johnson, P., Harris, E., & Doros, G. (submitted). Impact of REM sleep on distortions of slep concept, mood, and memory in depressed/anxious participants. Journal of Affective Disorders.
2. McNamara, P., Holtgraves, T. Durso, R., & Harris, E. (submitted). Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience of indirect speech: Evidence from Parkinson’s Disease. Evolution & Human Behvior.
3. Holtgraves, T., & McNamara, P. (submitted). Pragmatic comprehension deficit in Parkinson’s Disease. Neuropsychologia.
Forthcoming Books and Edited Series
1. McNamara, P. (in press). The neuroscience of religious experience and the self. New York: Cambridge University
2. McNamara, P, Nunn, C., & Barton, R. (Eds.) (in press). Evolution of sleep: Phylogenetic and functional perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Forthcoming Chapter
1. McNamara, P. (forthcoming, 2009). Neurochemistry and language. In P. C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
In Press Articles
1. 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.
2. Holtgraves, T., McNamara, P., Cappert, K., & Durso, R. (in press). Linguistic correlates of asymmetric motor symptom severity in Parkinson’s Disease. Brain & Language.
3. 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.
4. Harris, E., & McNamara, P. (in press). Neurologic constraints on evolutionary theories of religion. In E. Voland, W. Schiefenhovel, & R. Vaas (Series Eds.), The biological evolution of religious mind and behavior. Springer.
In Review Articles
1. McNamara, P., Burns, J., Johnson, P., & McCorkle, B. H. (in review). How does religiousness protect against risky health behaviors? Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.
2. McNamara, P., Stavitsky, K., Harris, E., Szent-Imrey, O., & Durso, R. (in review). Side of motor symptom onset and pain complaints in Parkinson’s disease. Psychiatry Research.
3. McNamara, P., & Wildman, W. J. (in review). On religious consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies.
4. McNamara, P. (in review). The evolution of religion and the religion-nature relation. Journal of Religion Nature, & Culture.
5. McNamara, P., & Burns, J. P. (in review). On James Jackson Putnam and the birth of the scientific psychology of religion. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.
6. Capellini, I., McNamara, P., Preston, B. T., Nunn, C. L., & Barton, R. A. (in review). Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test. PLoS ONE.
7. McNamara, P., Stavitsky, K., Durso, R., & Harris, E. (in review). The impact of clinical and cognitive variables on social functioning in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurology.
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.
2. Preston, B. T., Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., McNamara, P., & Nunn, C. L. (in preparation). Sleep, sociality and sexual selection.
Original Articles
1. 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.
2. Bernáth, I., McNamara, P., Szternák, N., Szakács, Z., Köves, P., Terray-Horváth, A., & Vida, Z. (2008). Hyperviscosity as a possible cause of positive acoustic evoked potential findings in patients with sleep apnea. Dual electrophysiological and hemorheological study. Sleep Medicine.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Assal, F., & McNamara, P. (2008). Spatial perseveration in dementia with Lewy bodies. Behavioural Neurology, 18, 235-236.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. McNamara, P., McLaren, D., & Durso, K. (2007). Representation of the Self in REM and NREM dreams. Dreaming, 17(2), 113-126.
11. McNamara, P., Durso, R., & Harris, E. (2007). ‘Machiavellianism’ and frontal dysfunction: Evidence from Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12(4), 285-300.
12. McNamara, P., & Szent-Imrey, R. (2007). Costly signaling theory of REM sleep and dreams. Evolutionary Psychology, 5(1), 28-44.
13. Klein, R., McNamara, P., & Albert, M. L. (2006). Neuropharmacologic approaches to cognitive rehabilitation. Behavioural Neurology, 17, 1-3.
14. McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (2006). Neuropharmacological treatment of mental dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease. Behavioural Neurology, 17(1), 43-51.
15. 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.
16. McNamara, P., Durso, R., & Brown, A. (2006). Religiosity in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychiatric Disease & Treatment, 2(3), 341-348.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. McNamara, P. (2004). Genomic imprinting and neurodevelopmental disorders of sleep. Sleep & Hypnosis, 6(2), 100-108.
21. McNamara, P., & Albert, M. L. (2004). Neuropharmacology of verbal perseveration. Seminars in Speech & Language, 24(4), 309-321.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (2003). Pragmatic communication skills in Parkinson’s Disease. Brain & Language, 84, 414-423.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. McNamara, P. (2002). The frontal lobes, social intelligence, and religious worship. Ideas for Creative Research in Neurobiology. The John Templeton Foundation (pp. 50-59).
28. 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.
29. McNamara, P., Dowdall, J., & Auerbach, S. (2002). REM sleep, early experience and the development of reproductive strategies. Human Nature, 13(4), 404-435.
30. McNamara, P., Andresen, J., Arrowood, J., & Messer, G. (2002). Counterfactual cognitive operations in dreams. Dreaming, 12(3), 121-133.
31. McNamara, P. (2002). The motivational origins of religious practices. Zygon: A Journal of Religion & Science, 37(1), 143-160.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. McNamara, P. (2000). Counterfactual thought in dreams. Dreaming, 10(4), 232-245.
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. 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.
43. McNamara, P., Clark, J., & Hartmann, E. (1998). Handedness and dream content. Dreaming, 8(1), 15-22.
44. McNamara, P. (1996). Bergson’s theory of dreaming. Dreaming, 6(3), 173-186.
45. 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.
46. McNamara, P. (1996). REM sleep: A social bonding mechanism. New Ideas in Psychology, 14(1), 35-46.
47. McNamara, P. (1996). Bergson’s “Matter and Memory” and modern selectionist theories of memory. Brain & Cognition, 30, 215-231.
48. 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.
49. Frazier, L., & McNamara, P. (1995). Favor referential representations. Brain & Language, 49, 224-240.
50. McNamara, P. (1994). Memory, double, shadow and evil. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 39, 233-251.
51. McNamara, P., Blum, D., O’Quin, K., & Schachter, S. (1994). Markers of cerebral lateralization and alcoholism. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 79, 1435-1440.
52. 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.
53. 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.
54. Staveley, H., & McNamara, P. (1993). Warwick Fox’s “Transpersonal Ecology”: A critique and alternative approach. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 24(2), 201-211.
55. 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.
56. Shapiro, L., McNamara, P., Zurif, E., Lanzoni, S., & Cermak, L. (1992). Processing complexity and sentence memory: Evidence from amnesia. Brain & Language, 42, 431-453.
57. McNamara, P. (1992). A transpersonal approach to memory. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 24(1), 61-78.
58. 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.
In Press Book Chapters
1. Nunn, C. L., McNamara, P., Capellini, I., Preston, B. T., & Barton, R. A. (in press). Primate sleep in phylogenetic perspective. In P. McNamara, C. L. Nunn, & R. A. Barton (Eds.), Evolution of sleep: Phylogenetic and functional perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., McNamara, P., Preston, B. T., & Nunn, C. L. (in press). Ecological constraints on mammalian sleep architecture. In P. McNamara, C. L. Nunn, & R. A. Barton (Eds.), Evolution of sleep: Phylogenetic and functional perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. McNamara, P., & Auerbach, S. (in press). 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. Cambridge: cambridge University Press.
Book Chapters
1. Harris, E., & 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.
2. 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 1: Religious and spiritual events. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
3. McNamara, P., 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.
4. 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.
5. McNamara, P., 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.
6. Emmons, R., & McNamara, P. (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.
7. Park, C., & McNamara, P. (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.
8. Paloutzian, R., Swenson, E., & McNamara, P. (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.
9. McNamara, P., 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. McNamara, P., & Albert, M. (2003). Pharmacotherapy of cognition. In K. Heilman & E. Valenstein (Eds.), Clinical neuropsychology (4th ed., pp. 640-656). New York: Oxford.
13. 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.
14. McNamara, P. (2001). Religion and the frontal lobes. In J. Andresen (Ed.), Religion in mind (pp. 237-256). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
Submitted Abstracts for Upcoming Conference Presentations
1. Butler, P., McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (submitted). Parkinson’s disease and religiosity: Deficits in the automatic activation of religious concepts. Abstract submitted to The Movement Disorders Society’s 13th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders to be held June 7-11, 2009 in Paris, France.
2. Butler, P., McNamara, P., & Durso, R. (submitted). Parkinson’s disease and intentionality: Deficits in representation of intention. Abstract submitted to The Movement Disorders Society’s 13th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders to be held June 7-11, 2009 in Paris, France.
3. Harris, E., McNamara, P., & Durso, P. (submitted). Self-complexity in Parkinson’s disease is predicted by depression. Abstract submitted to The Movement Disorders Society’s 13th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders to be held June 7-11, 2009 in Paris, France.
4. McNamara, P., Auerbach, S., Johnson, P., Harris, E., & Doros, G. (submitted). REM and NREM-related memory and mood regulation in healthy adults. Abstract submitted for the 2009 SLEEP Conference to be held in Seattle, WA.
5. Auerbach, S., McNamara, P., Johnson, P., Harris, E., & Doros, G. (submitted). Sex differences in sleep-related memory and mood regulation. Abstract submitted for the 2009 SLEEP Conference to be held in Seattle, WA.
6. McNamara, P., Auerbach, S., Johnson, P., Harris, E., & Doros, G. (submitted). REM and NREM-related mood regulation in unmedicated anxious depression. Abstract submtited for the 2009 SLEEP Conference to be held in Seattle, WA.
Published Abstracts from Recent Conference Presentations
1. Stavistky, K., Griffin, E., Ansok, C., McNamara, P., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2009). Objective measures of sleep quality and cognitive performance in parkinson’s disease. Poster to be presented Beruary 11-14, 2009 at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
2. 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.
3. McNamara, P., Stavitsky, K., Van Doren, V., Harris, E., & Durso, R. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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. (2008). Nightmares: The science and solution of those frightening visions during sleep. Westport, CT: Praeger Perspectives.
2. McNamara, P. (2004). An evolutionary psychology of sleep and dreams. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press.
3. 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. Barrett, D., & McNamara, P. (Eds.). (2007). The new science of dreaming (3 volumes). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.
2. 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?’
Sirius Satellite Radio, Fully Alive!, August 19, 2008.
