Alice W. Flaherty
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Alice W. Flaherty is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of neurology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has written and spoken publicly about her own experience with bipolar disorder. [4]
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Career and work
Flaherty is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she directs the Movement Disorders Fellowship. She is also an associate professor of neurology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her clinical and research work includes movement and mood disorders and the brain systems involved in behavioural and creative drive. [4]
She is the author of The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain and The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology. [4]
What has been publicly discussed
“I would like it to be seen more as a disease and less as a failure of willpower.”
— Alice W. Flaherty [2]
