Alice W. Flaherty, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Neurology
Boston, MA 02114
Books
The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write,
Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain (2004)
The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology (2000)
The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster: A Story of Pediatric Food Aversion (in press)
Areas of Interest and Research
Basal ganglia, Parkinson’s disease, movement disorders, functional MRI, deep brain stimulation, hypergraphia, writer’s block, creativity.
Representative Publications
Flaherty, A. W. The
Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain
(Houghton Mifflin, Co., 2004).
Flaherty, A. W. The
Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology. (Philadelphia:
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1999). Translated into Spanish, Japanese and
Chinese.
Flaherty, A. W., J. B. Penney. Organization of the basal ganglia. In W.
Couldwell and R. Cosgrove, eds., Surgical Management of Movement Disorders,
Quality Medical Publishing, St. Louis, MO. (in press)
Graybiel, A. M., T. Aosaki, A. W. Flaherty, M. Kimura (1994) The basal ganglia
and adaptive motor control. Science. 265:1826-1831.
Flaherty, A. W., A. M. Graybiel (1994) Input-output organization of the
sensorimotor striatum in the squirrel monkey. J. Neurosci. 14:599-610.
Flaherty, A. W., A. M. Graybiel (1993) Two input systems for body
representations in the primate striatal matrix: experimental evidence in the
squirrel monkey. J. Neurosci. 13:1120-1137.
Flaherty, A. W., A. M. Graybiel (1993) Output organization of the primate
putamen. J. Neurosci. 13:3222-3237.
Upcoming Speaking Appearances
Monday, 2/2
Ann
Arbor, MI, Shaman Drum Bookshop
311-315 S. State Street
8 p.m.
Tuesday, 2/3
Seattle, University Bookstore
4326 University Way NE
7 p.m.
Wednesday, 2/4
Bainbridge Island, WA, Field's End Writers Community
1270 Madison Avenue
7 p.m.
Thursday, 2/5
Berkeley, CA, Cody's Books
2454 Telegraph Ave. (note, this has been changed from the Fourth Street
store where it was originally to be held)
7:30 p.m.
Friday, 2/6
Los Angeles, Dutton's Brentwood
11975 San Vicente Blvd.
7 p.m.
Thursday, 2/12
Cambridge,
MA, Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Ave
6 p.m.
Interviews, Articles, and Reviews
- "Writer's
Block Sign of Deeper Problems," Interview with Ellen Barry, Boston
Globe, December 2003
- "Brain
Regions May Sap or Spur Creativity," Harvard Medical School Focus,
December 2003
- "Authorial
Synapses," Harvard Magazine, January 2004
- “Just
Do It,” New York Times Book Review, “Last Word” column by Laura Miller,
January 11, 2004
Information for potential patients
Functional
Neurosurgery at Mass. General Hospital
Information for potential trainees
Partners Massachusetts General-Brigham and Women’s Hospital Residency Training Program in Neurology
Contact
Department of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
VBK 905B, 55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Clinic 617-724-9234, fax 726-4101
Office 617-726-1405, fax 726-2353
aflaherty@partners.org
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