About Alice Weaver Flaherty: Alice Weaver Flaherty is an American neurologist. She is a researcher, physician, educator and author of the 2004 book The Midnight Disease, about the neural basis of creativity.
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that…we should not...
The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest of me thinks that artificially splitting off the scientist in me from the writer in me is actually a ki...
What made me empathic was my depressions.
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.
It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
