Dr. Alice Weaver Flaherty is a neurologist known for her award-winning book about the neural basis of creativity titled the Midnight Disease.

She completed her A.B., M.D., internship, residency, and fellowship at Harvard. She also completed a Ph.D. at MIT. She currently works at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in addition assumes the position as assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School.

She writes in various genres, including “scientific papers, humorous essays, and picture books”. She is head of the MGH Neurology’s Brain Stimulator Unit, where “she uses deep brain stimulators to treat psychiatric as well as neurological disease. Her research focuses on how our brains represent our bodies, a factor that helps drive suffering in depression, Parkinson’s, and somatoform disorders.” Her book, The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology is the most "widely used neurology text in its class".

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she has published 26 peer-reviewed journal articles listed in Scopus. The six most highly cited are:

Graybiel, A.M., Aosaki, T., Flaherty, A.W., Kimura, M. "The basal ganglia and adaptive motor control" (1994) Science, 265 (5180), pp. 1826—1831. Cited 498 times.
Flaherty, A.W., Graybiel, A.M. "Two input systems for body representations in the primate striatal matrix: Experimental evidence in the squirrel monkey" (1993) Journal of Neuroscience, 13 (3), pp. 1120—1137. Cited 133 times.
Flaherty, A.W., Graybiel, A.M. "Corticostriatal transformations in the primate somatosensory system. Projections from physiologically mapped body-part representations"

(1991) Journal of Neurophysiology, 66 (4), pp. 1249—1263. Cited 112 times

Flaherty, A.W., Graybiel, A.M. "Input-output organization of the sensorimotor striatum in the squirrel monkey" (1994) Journal of Neuroscience, 14 (2), pp. 599—610. Cited 97 times.
O'Gorman, S., Flaherty, W.A., Fishman, G.A., Berson, E.L. "Histopathologic findings in Best's vitelliform macular dystrophy" (1988) Archives of Ophthalmology, 106 (9), pp. 1261—1268. Cited 71 times.
Flaherty, A.W., Williams, Z.M., Amirnovin, R., Kasper, E., Rauch, S.L., Cosgrove, G.R., Eskandar, E.N." Deep brain stimulation of the anterior internal capsule for the treatment of tourette syndrome: Technical case report" (2005) Neurosurgery, 57 (4 SUPPL.), pp. ONS-403. Cited 56 times.

Books and non-technical articles

Flaherty, Alice W., and Natalia S. Rost. The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2nd ed. 2007. ISBN 9780781751377

Translated into Japanese as Flaherty, Alice W., and Takamichi Hattori. MGH ?????????? / MGH shinkei naika handobukku. Tokyo: Medikaru saiensu intanashonaru, 2001

Flaherty, Alice W. The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain. Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. ISBN 9780618230655

Review, Publishers Weekly
Review, Women's review of books. 22, no. 3, (2004): 11-12
Review, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 53, no. 2 (2005): 630-634
Review Lancet Neurology 3, no. 9, (2004): 568
Review, The American journal of psychiatry. 161, no. 10, (2004): 1937
Review, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 48, no. 1 (2005): 148-150

German translation as "Die Mitternachtskrankheit : warum Schriftsteller schreiben müssen ; Schreibzwang, Schreibrausch, Schreibblockade und das kreative Gehirn" Berlin : , 2004. ISBN 9783932909399
Japanese translation as Flaherty, Alice, and Toshiko Yoshida. ?????? : ????????? / Kakitagaru n?: gengo to s?z?sei no kagaku. T?ky?: Randamuhausuk?dansha, 2006.

Flaherty, Alice W. 2008. "Interdisciplinary Inspiration". Nature. 451, no. 7176: 246.

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Total Books: 3

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2007 - Luck of the Loch Ness Monster a Tale of Picky Eating (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780618556441
ISBN-10: 0618556443
Genres: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

2005 - The Midnight Disease the Drive to Write Writer's Block and the Creative Brain (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780618485413
ISBN-10: 0618485414
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Reference

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.

2004 - The Midnight Disease the Drive to Write Writer's Block and the Creative Brain (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780618230655
ISBN-10: 0618230653
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Reference, Science & Math

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

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