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Alice Weaver Flaherty

Neurologist United States

9 quotes in 70 categories

Alice Weaver Flaherty is a neurologist from the United States, best known for Luck of the Loch Ness Monster.

Quick Facts About Alice Weaver Flaherty

Nationality: United States
Profession: Neurologist
Notable works: Luck of the Loch Ness Monster

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: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain, about the neural basis of creativity.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Alice Weaver Flaherty

“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness.…

Alice Weaver Flaherty

Art

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Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

Alice Weaver Flaherty

Neurology

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A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

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Creative

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What made me empathic was my depressions.

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Depression

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The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

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Ideas

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“The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder.…

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Bipolar disorder

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What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did.…

Alice Weaver Flaherty

Autonomy

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It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

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Controlled

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How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the…

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Bars

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