Alice Weaver Flaherty
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
learning ideas creative
A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
dog writing sleep
Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.
neurology should psychiatry
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.
ideas skins wasps
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
made
What made me empathic was my depressions.