Alice Flaherty, M.D., Ph.D. Alice Flaherty, M.D., Ph.D. MGH Appointment: Assistant in Neurology
HMS Appointment: Instructor in Neurology
MGH Address:
MGH Phone Number:
Patient Office Phone Number: 617-726-5532
Patient Office Location: ACC835
E-Mail Address: aflaherty@partners.org
Fax Number: 617-726-2353
Undergraduate Education: Harvard University
Graduate And/Or Medical School: Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Residencies And Fellowships: Massachusetts General Hospital: Internal Medicine,
Neurology, and Movement Disorders
Foreign Language Spoken: French, sort of
Certification by an American Specialty Board: Neurology
Other Specialties:
Research Interests: Parkinson's disease, tremor, intersection of psychiatry and neurology
Clinical Interests: same
Representative Publications:
Flaherty, A. W. Crazy about Writing: Hypergraphia, Writer's Block, and the Brain's Drive to Create (Houghton Mifflin, Co., in press).
Flaherty, A. W. The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1999. Translated into Spanish, Japanese and Chinese.
Flaherty, A. W., J. B. Penney. Organization of the basal ganglia. In W. Couldwell and R. Cosgrove, eds., Surgical Management of Movement Disorders, Quality Medical Publishing, St. Louis, MO. (in press)
Graybiel, A. M., T. Aosaki, A. W. Flaherty, M. Kimura (1994) The basal ganglia and adaptive motor control. Science. 265:1826-1831.
Flaherty, A. W., A. M. Graybiel (1994) Input-output organization of the sensorimotor striatum in the squirrel monkey. J. Neurosci. 14:599-610.
Flaherty, A. W., A. M. Graybiel (1993) Two input systems for body representations in the primate striatal matrix: experimental evidence in the squirrel monkey. J. Neurosci. 13:1120-1137.
Flaherty, A. W., A. M. Graybiel (1993) Output organization of the primate putamen. J. Neurosci. 13:3222-3237.