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McNamara, Patrick Joseph was born on January 4, 1956 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Michael McNamara and Margaret Tarbell.
( Mental Darwinism, a new approach to the study of mental...)
Mental Darwinism, a new approach to the study of mental phenomena,applies selectionist ideas to problems of mind and behavior. McNamara challenges the instructivist view that memories occur when information from the environment is transferred into the mind. Current experimental evidence confirms the insights of two turn-of-the-century philosophers, William James and Henri Bergson, who originally proposed applying Darwinian principles to mental processes. The view of the mind that emerges from this approach helps us understand why memory evolves as it does and is not always accurate or veridical, how memory is related to personal identity, and how a large number of neuropsychological disorders develop.
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( Challenging existing claims concerning the functions of...)
Challenging existing claims concerning the functions of Rapid Eye Movement sleep and the purported meaninglessness of dreams, this text offers a complete and up-to-date survey on the anatomy, physiology, ontogeny, and phylogeny of REM sleep as well as the cognitive neuroscience of dream phenomonolgy and dream content. The text underlines the importance of looking at how REM interacts physiologically with NREM sleep, in order to understand the potential functions of REM. The findings support and extend clams that the functions of REM involve memory consolidation and regulation of emotional conflicts and expression. Analyses of evolutionary relationships include sleep in reptiles, birds, marsupials, and mammals. Chapters explore interactions of REM and NREM and effects of these interactions on anabolic hormone release as well as the effects on dream content, the effects of genes and genomic imprinting on sleep, and theories of dream formation and content.
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McNamara, Patrick Joseph was born on January 4, 1956 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Michael McNamara and Margaret Tarbell.
Bachelor in Psychology, Boston University, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy in Behavioral Neurosci., Boston University, 1991.
Assistant professor department psychology State University College Buffalo, 1994—1996. Assistant professor department behavioral neuroscience Boston University School Medical, 1999—2000, assistant professor department neurology, since 2000, associate professor psychiatry, since 2007. Manager research department Partnership for Organ Donation, Boston, 1996—1999.
Research Psychologist Virginia New England Healthcare Systems, 2000—2005. Director evolutionary Neurobehavior laboratory Boston University School Medical, since 2005. Co-founder Institute Bio-cultural Study Religion, Boston, since 2007.
( Challenging existing claims concerning the functions of...)
( Mental Darwinism, a new approach to the study of mental...)
Member of Association Health Services Research, International Neuropsychol. Society, Association for Study of Dreams, Sleep Research Society, International Association Cognitive Science Religion, Science Society Study Religion, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Behavioral Neurosci.
Married Reka Szent-Imrey, May 27, 2005. 1 child Inahivia.