Patrick has worked for 15 years as the neuropsychologist for the Movement Disorders Research Group at the Jamaica Plain Campus at the Veterans Affairs New England Healthcare System in Boston, Mass. He is currently Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.

Patrick has over 15 years of experience working directly with patients with Parkinson’s Disease and their families. His first contact with PD was in 1988 when he had a chance to work with a PD patient with a very rare neuropsychiatric syndrome called Othello syndrome. After publishing that case study he steadily increased his work on PD and has now published over 40 scientific papers on the disorder in major journals. He has spent most of his career at the Boston VA and Boston University School of Medicine in the Neurology departments. He has also taught neuropsychology at various colleges and universities in the northeast. He is currently Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at BU School of Medicine and the Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory at the Neurology Department of the BU School of Medicine. He has been the recipient of a VA Merit Review Award and of an award from the National Institutes of Health, to study speech and language problems of PD.

Dr McNamara received his B.A. in Psychology, from Boston University. He was awarded the Ph.D., in Behavioral Neuroscience (Human Neuropsychology), also from Boston University. He did a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Aphasia Research Center, Boston VA Medical Center.

After witnessing the challenges PD presents to many of my patients and their families, I wanted to do more for these good people than simply study the disorder from a scientific point of view. I wanted to establish an information service for patients and their families that would put the best and most up to date information available on PD at the fingertips of patients and their families. I hope this website will help to remind persons with PD that the disease does not define who you are -- no matter how much it challenges you. I also aim to make this website a real and trusted resource for the PD community.

• Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory
  Website of Dr. McNamara's Laboratory, including information on all of his areas of research.
• Dr. McNamara's Publications on Parkinson's Disease
  A list of PD related publications.
• Recent Findings
  A description of Dr. McNamara's recent findings on Parkinson's disease.
• Dr. McNamara's CV