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: Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Cognition)
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;ÃÂ Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1316629741
- Patrick McNamara, The cognitive neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's Disease, MIT Press, 2011,
- Patrick McNamara, The neuroscience of religious experience, Cambridge University Press, 2009,
- Patrick McNamara, An evolutionary psychology of sleep and dreams. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman, Science and the world's religions, Praeger, 2012,
- Patrick McNamara, Where God and science meet : how brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion, Praeger Publishers, 2006,
- Patrick McNamara, Nightmares : the science and solution of those frightening visions during sleep, Praeger, 2008,
- 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,
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