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Meet Dr. Alyson Maloy, MD

Dr. Maloy is triple board-certified in neurology, psychiatry, and integrative holistic medicine and fellowship-trained in the neurologic subspecialty of autonomic disorders.

Dr. Maloy was raised in Harrison, ME, and earned her undergraduate degree from Columbia College of Columbia University in New York City, where she earned a bachelors of the arts (B.A.) degree for an independent major - examining the influence of culture on countries’ scientific systems and practice of medicine - and with a concentration in premedical studies.

She earned her Doctorate of Medicine (M.D.) degree in 2004 from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, serving there as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, before moving back to New York City for a six-year double residency in psychiatry and neurology at NYU-Langone Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital, and the Manhattan VA, which she completed in 2010.

Upon completion of the double residency, Dr. Maloy went on to complete a one-year fellowship in 2011 at the NYU Dysautonomia Center, where she worked with patients with autonomic disorders and helped conduct Autonomic Diseases Consortium research funded within the NIH Rare Diseases Network.

Dr. Maloy joined Mid Coast Medical Group Neurology in 2012 and worked as an outpatient general and behavioral neurologist. During her time there she earned subspecialty board certification with the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. She then joined the medical staff at Maine Medical Center, working as an inpatient neuropsychiatrist on P6 - a medical-psychiatric unit specializing in neuropsychiatric illness, and became the first physician at MMC to be appointed to the Department of Psychiatry and to the Department of Medicine for neurology. Dr. Maloy was appointed clinical assistant professor in psychiatry by Tufts University School of Medicine and recognized for outstanding teaching.

Dr. Maloy left Maine Medical Center in 2017 to launch Portland Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, where she treated patients with a wide variety of neurologic-psychiatric disorders. In 2024 she became certified in the Nutritarian method of nutritional excellence. in 2025, completed formal training in polyvagal theroy (PVT) with the Polyvagal Research Institute. In 2026, she completed additional training in the use of PVT in trauma therapy. In 2025 she expanded and relocated her practice, renaming it Brain Health Maine to better reflect the comprehensive and integrative approach towards behavioral neurology and neurosychiatry that she utilizes in her practice

Dr. Maloy is a longtime member of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Psychiatric Association, with whom she is a fellow. She is an active member of the Maine Medical Association and the Maine Association of Psychiatric Physicians (MAPP), with whom she is an executive council member and legislative affairs representative, and a more recent member of the Maine Neurological Society and the International Society for Mast Cell Activation Syndromes. Dr. Maloy is a founding member of Physicians for Patient Protection, a national non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring access to physician-led medical care for all patients, and is a board member of Friends of Little Portion Hermitage, a non-profit organization supporting the mission of the Little Portion Hermitage in Auburn.

Dr. Maloy enjoys caring for patients from throughout the state of Maine. She lives in Portland with her son, Leo; her dog, Mercy; and her cat, Sky.

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