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- noun Affliction which causes the sufferer to transcribe their thoughts uncontrollably, presumably caused by temporal lobe
epilepsy , or a rightcerebral stroke .
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Examples
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- – As of current, hypergraphia is understood to be triggered by changes in brainwave activity in the temporal lobe.
Eight Diseases that Give You Super Human Powers | Impact Lab 2007
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Of course, it's also not helping that I'm over that bout of hypergraphia I was having between 2001-2005 or so, and writing has (mostly) stopped being a compulsion, except when something really gets me by the throat and I have to write it now.
breathe in, breathe out, move on matociquala 2008
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The first researcher to note and catalog the abnormal experiences associated with TLE was neurologist Norman Geschwind, who noted a constellation of symptoms, including hypergraphia, hyperreligiosity, fainting spells, mutism and pedantism, often collectively ascribed to a condition known as Geschwind syndrome.
Eight Diseases that Give You Super Human Powers | Impact Lab 2007
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What about Christian Science, built on the hypergraphia of Mary Baker Eddy, who was probably suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy?
i'm with 2008
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Woolfian greatness of, 157; as Rushdie fan, 157; as disappointing husband, 158-159; as slogger, 158; hypergraphia of, 158
Who's Who 2005
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Woolfian greatness of, 157; as Rushdie fan, 157; as disappointing husband, 158-159; as slogger, 158; hypergraphia of, 158
Who's Who 2005
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Hypergraffitis: "..... a compulsive need to write all over everything", outdoors. (not be confused with hypergraphia) 10: 01 AM
Graffitis Slimbolala 2005
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Woolfian greatness of, 157; as Rushdie fan, 157; as disappointing husband, 158-159; as slogger, 158; hypergraphia of, 158
Who's Who 2005
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That correspondent defines my affliction as hypergraphia – words flowing out all the time in an obsessive fashion, always writing – if not this, then that, and many things at once.
Just curious deep_bluze 2004
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Though she perceptively points out that writer's block and hypergraphia are less opposites than symptoms of a more generally disordered relationship with writing, I am obviously--at least 90% of the time, there's always the other 10% when things are considerably more difficult--more afflicted with the too-much of reading and writing than the too-little.
The limbic system stands up for its rights Jenny Davidson 2006
kewpid commented on the word hypergraphia
“The midnight disease�?—an insatiable desire to write.
January 9, 2008