What is the difference between epilepsy and hypergraphia?
epilepsy | hypergraphia |
(pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
(psychiatry) A behavioural condition characterised by an intense desire to write, associated with changes in the temporal lobes due to epilepsy or chemical changes.
* 1994 , Thomas J. Csordas, 12: Words from the Holy People: a case study in cultural phenomenology'', Thomas J. Csordas (editor), ''Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self ,
* 1996 , Michael R. Trimble, Biological Psychiatry ,
* 2009 , Joseph M. Tonkonogy, Antonio E. Puente, Localization of Clinical Syndromes in Neuropsychology and Neuroscience ,
As nouns the difference between epilepsy and hypergraphia
is that epilepsy is (pathology) a medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts while hypergraphia is affliction which causes the sufferer to transcribe their thoughts uncontrollably, presumably caused by temporal lobe epilepsy, or a right cerebral stroke.epilepsy
English
(wikipedia epilepsy)Noun
- Epilepsies , or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
Derived terms
* epileptic * epileptiformSee also
* falling sickness * grand mal * petit malhypergraphia
English
(wikipedia hypergraphia)Noun
(-)page 280,
- Two features of the interictal behavior syndrome are relevant: hypergraphia or the tendency to write compulsively and often repetitively, and verbosity or loquaciousness, the tendency to be overly talkative, rambling, and circumstantial in speech.
page 279,
- There is some suggestion that hypergraphia is associated with non-dominant hemisphere temporal lobe disturbances (Trimble, 1986c).
page 559,
- Two cases of mania and hypergraphia' in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy were reported by Sanders and Mathews (1994). In the first case, a 58-year-old right-handed man suffered a ruptured right middle cerebral artery aneurism, which required a craniotomy. During interictal periods, the patient demonstrated ' hypergraphia , as well as several episodes of alternating manic and mildly depressive phases.