Where God And Science Meet How Brain And Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion

PATRICK MCNAMARA is Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory in the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, and the VA New England Healthcare System. He is also Assistant Professor of Neurology at the same sites. He is currently developing an evolutionary approach to problems of brain and behavior, and studying the evolution of the frontal lobes, the two mammalian sleep states (REM and NREM) and the evolution of religion in cultures. He is trained in behavioral neuorscience, neurolinguistics and brain-cognitive correlation techniques. He pioneered investigation of the role of the frontal lobes in mediation of religious experience.McNamara, Patrick is the author of 'Where God And Science Meet How Brain And Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion', published 2006 under ISBN 9780275987886 and ISBN 0275987884.