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Patrick McNamara (born 1956) is an American neuroscientist. His work has centered on three major topics: sleep and dreams, religion, and mind/brain.

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) ^{[1] [2]}

• 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; Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1316629741
• Patrick McNamara, The cognitive neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's Disease, MIT Press, 2011, ISBN  978-0-262-01608-7 ^{[3] [4]}
• Patrick McNamara, The neuroscience of religious experience, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN  978-0521889582 ^{[5] [6]}
• Patrick McNamara, An evolutionary psychology of sleep and dreams. Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN  9780275978754 ^{[7] [8]}
• Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman, Science and the world's religions, Praeger, 2012, ISBN  978-0313387326 ^[9]
• Patrick McNamara, Where God and science meet : how brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion, Praeger Publishers, 2006, ISBN  0275987884 ^[10]
• Patrick McNamara, Nightmares : the science and solution of those frightening visions during sleep, Praeger, 2008, ISBN  978-0313345128 ^[11]
• 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.

• Deirdre Barrett and Patrick McNamara, Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams, Greenwood, 2012, ISBN  978-0313386640 ^[12]

• Official page at Boston University