Sentences with word «hypergraphia»

The artist Vincent Van Gogh, the composer Robert Schumann and the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky are said to have suffered from a range of mental disorders including hypergraphia, a compulsion to write — a sign perhaps their art emerged from an unrelenting urge to communicate.

Flaherty, who studies conditions such as hypergraphia (an uncontrollable urge to write) and writer's block, also looks to disease models to explain the drive behind this mode of communication.

My postpartum mood disorder manifested as hypomania (the «lesser» form of mania) as well as a rare condition called hypergraphia, which is nonstop writing.

Which of us hasn't borrowed a book from a library only to discover that in addition to the odd grease spot and marmalade stain there are impertinent notes left by some earlier patron who was either suffering from hypergraphia or the delusion that l'État, c» etait Lui.

Her subsequent postpartum disorder brought on depression and mania, including hypergraphia — the constant need to write.

When a patient with epilepsy experiences increased electrical activity in the brain, or seizures, this could be associated with an increase in a range of behaviors, such as hyper - sexuality, hypergraphia (an intense desire to write), hyper - morality and hyper - religiosity, explained Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology at Missouri University and lead researcher on the study.

Neither do I, but I can blog even though I don't have hypergraphia.