Nightmares By Patrick Mcnamar Summary

This book “Nightmares”, written by Patrick McNamara, is a detailed description on the science and solution of the frightening visions during sleep. The author McNamara, studied at the University of Massachusetts Boston and majored in Philosophy. After working at Boston’s drug and alcohol detox center, he became interested in disorders of the mind and brain. He then transferred to Boston University and changed his major to neuropsychology. He went on to get his Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience. Currently, he is the Associate Professor of Neurology Department at Boston University School of Medicine and Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior at VA New England Healthcare System. McNamara’s research with dreams focus on the phylogeny of REM and NREM sleep states. The audience for this book would be certain individuals who are interested in studying nightmares; the content, biology, and phenomenon. This book has a wide array of information regarding nightmares, but some of the main ideas are nightmares in children, nightmares in pre modern society, and nightmares and popular culture. Along with these main points, McNamara talks about research done in the biological aspect of nightmares, as well as content of …show more content…
Not only that, but the author Patrick McNamara, is very well-educated and is a member of the Sleep Research Society and the Association for the Study of Dreams. He has a long of knowledge and background experience on neurology. At the end of the book, McNamara has over 15 pages of references that he used while writing his book. That leads me to believe that he did quite a large amount of research. This source would be very helpful while composing my informative speech. I wanted to talk about nightmares and what they correlate with in real life. I believe that this source can give me a lot of credible information that can help me further my knowledge on