Conference Presentations

Upcoming Presentations

  1. Harris, E., McNamara, P., & Butler, P. (2009). Religiosity in patients with parkinson’s Disease. To be presented March 17, 2009 at the University of Connecticut, Uncasville, CT.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.

Past Presentations

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Harris, E., & McNamara, P. (January 2007). Is religiousness a biocultural adaptation? Paper presented January 4, 2007 at the Evolution of Religion Conference, Oahu, Hawaii.
  13. Capellini, I., Nunn, C. L., McNamara, P., & Barton, R. (2006). Phylogenetic comparative analysis of the correlates of sleep in mammals. Poster presented at Tours, France.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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, Maryland.
  18. 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, Maryland.
  19. McNamara, P., Kookoolis, A., Warwick, N., & Van Doren, V. (2008). The human ecology of sleep: cross-cultural co-sleeping and childcare patterns. Presented April 8, 2008 at the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, OH.

 

 

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