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	Harvard Gazette: The brains behind writer's block
		The unstoppable drive to write (or produce in other media), called hypergraphia, can be triggered by temporal lobe epilepsy, mania, and other mood disorders.
		The late Norman Geschwind, a Harvard expert on hypergraphia, referred to such talents as a valuable result from a brain defect.
		And undergoing the required surgery is risky." However, she did not rule out the possibility of less invasive ways to enliven the muse, or remove blocks in its path, sometime in the future.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/01.29/01-creativity.html (1103 words)

	Hypergraphia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hypergraphia was one of the central issues in the mysterious story of Virginia Ridley, a Georgia woman who also suffered from agoraphobia and epilepsy and remained secluded in her home for twenty-seven years.
		When her husband, Alvin Ridley, was accused of holding his wife in the home for almost three decades and killing her, her ten thousand-plus page hypergraphic journal was central at the 1999 trial and in the ultimate acquittal of Mr.
		As of current, hypergraphia is understood to be triggered by changes in brainwave activity in the temporal lobe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hypergraphia (316 words)

	The Chronicle: 11/21/2003: Writing Like Crazy: a Word on the Brain
		Their hypergraphia is usually linked to other personality traits, including unstable mood and motivation, and a tendency to ruminate on the philosophical or religious Big Questions.
		Hypergraphia is a window onto the nature of creative drive, and its neurological underpinnings are better understood than those of talent.
		Hypergraphia doesn't guarantee writing skill; its products can range from the simple (for instance, an epileptic patient whose copious journal was endless repetition of the thought "Thank GOD, no seizures" in variously colored ink) to the sublime (the novels of Dostoevsky or Flaubert, also temporal-lobe epileptics).
	chronicle.com /free/v50/i13/13b00601.htm (3694 words)

	Hypergraphia - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Hypergraphia is a psychological disorder whereby one continues writing and writing even though one really has nothing to say.
		Not much is known about hypergraphia, and it can affect people of any age or race equally.
		Well, maybe it doesn't qualify as hypergraphia at all because it's a lot of people writing it, but it kind of exhibits the same sort of characteristics that one might see when reading work done by people that actually do have hypergraphia.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Hypergraphia (1399 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Hypergraphia
		In van Gogh's case, hypergraphia affected and changed his way of painting...but it didn't spur him to paint', pointing out that in contrast to van Gogh's meticulous method of planning and sketching his canvases on 'normal' days, his periods of hypergraphic fever were spent painting frenetically and spontaneously.
		Hypergraphia is seldom, if ever, treated on its own; rather, when treatment is given at all it is directed at the conditions that cause hypergraphia.
		Although hypergraphia is regarded by many medical professionals as an illness, in the future it may be that the triggering of hypergraphia may someday be used to enhance creativity.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A3851093 (2190 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Research \| Telling a tale with too many words
		Her own experience with hypergraphia began when severe postnatal depression took over after she gave birth to premature twin boys who died.
		Not only were many of her grimmest poems written at this point in her menstrual cycle, but she also committed suicide during a particularly difficult spell.
		Although the two illnesses are largely unrelated - the first a neurological disorder, the second a psychiatric one - their overlapping symptoms often mean one is mistaken for the other.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/research/story/0,9865,1171596,00.html (942 words)

	Guardian \| Telling a tale with too many words
		The looming presence of the blank page, the gripping fear of creative sterility are only too familiar to journalists, poets, diarists or avid pen pals.
		Hypergraphia is most commonly associated with temporal lobe epilepsy, a type associated with repetitive, automatic movements in a high proportion of cases.
		Although not a terribly frequent manifestation of temporal lobe epilepsy, when detected it often accompanies an inflated sense of divine inspiration referred to as hyperreligiosity, as well as increased or erratic sexual activity and emotional volatility.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4881745-111414,00.html (926 words)

	Press Release for The Midnight Disease published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		A neurologist whose work puts her at the forefront of brain science, Flaherty herself suffered from hypergraphia after the loss of her prematurely born twins.
		One of the things that makes hypergraphia interesting is that known brain conditions can trigger it, and they all seem to heavily involve the temporal lobes, parts of the brain that are right behind the ears.
		And the likely reason that the temporal lobe can trigger hypergraphia is that the limbic system, which has a big role in our affiliative instincts — our desire to be in contact with family and friends — produces a drive to communicate that in turn drives the speech area of the temporal lobe.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /booksellers/press_release/flaherty (2448 words)

	Hypergraphia definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms easily defined on MedTerms
		Hypergraphia: The driving compulsion to write; the overwhelming urge to write.
		Hypergraphia may compel someone to keep a voluminous journal, to jot off frequent letters to the editor, to write on toilet paper if nothing else is available, and perhaps even to compile a dictionary.
		Hypergraphia has also been called the midnight disease.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=26483 (173 words)

	Fortean Times - The Outsiders
		Evidence of a distinctive profile for the temporal lobe epileptic is far from emphatic, but the phenomenon of hypergraphia has been fairly well documented among a small number of temporal lobe epileptics.
		Shlain regards hypergraphia – the compulsion to write – as a caricature of the masculine left-brain: “In general hypergraphics are rigid, humourless, domineering and unsympathetic.”
		Though most cases of hypergraphia are connected to lesions of the left brain in epilepsy, they are also often connected to right-sided EEG foci.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/147_madness.shtml (2764 words)

	03/22/04 - Hypergraphia
		Hypergraphia is interesting enough for both its neuropsychological and historical aspects, but the book has much more.
		You might think that writer's block would be the polar opposite of hypergraphia, but in most cases it is fundamentally unrelated.
		When her hypergraphia ceased, she felt no loss.
	salidaarchive.org /atl/pages/191.html (549 words)

	Hypergraphia for Poetry in an Epileptic Patient -- Mendez 17 (4): 560 -- Journal of Neuropsychiatry
		Hypergraphia for Poetry in an Epileptic Patient -- Mendez 17 (4): 560 -- Journal of Neuropsychiatry
		This hypergraphia may occur as part of the
		Roberts JKA, Robertson MM, Trimble MR: The lateralizing significance of hypergraphia in temporal lobe epilepsy.
	neuro.psychiatryonline.org /cgi/content/full/17/4/560 (483 words)

	www.alphadictionary.com * Alpha Agora Language Discussion Board - View topic - hypergraphia
		It is not a formally-recognized disorder, although it has been embraced by neurologist Alice Weaver Flaherty in her book The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain.
		Actually I came across this word while waiting to see the doctor, where I was reading a copy of National Geographic.
		This woman had very intense episodes of hypergraphia following, first, losing her first twins and, second, the birth of her daughter I think.
	www.alphadictionary.com /bb/viewtopic.php?t=694 (392 words)

	Lessons: Humility via hypergraphia
		I then move on to the article, which discusses hypergraphia, a clinically diagnosed maniac condition characterized by a irrepressible writing.
		As the article states, “it may also lead to hyper-religious feelings and a sense that even the most trivial events are filled with heightened meaning and cosmic importance”.
		And therein came the rush of humility as I realized that perhaps I was simply a recovering hypergraphia, or perhaps a hypergraphist who has lost their pen.
	intangibility.com /blogs/Lessons/2005/03/humility-via-hypergraphia.html (489 words)

	identity theory \| interviews \| alice flaherty
		Her bouts with what has misleadingly described as postpartum mood disorders* led Flaherty to investigate what is clinically referred to as hypergraphia and its well-known opposite, writer's block.
		In a recent interview Alice Flaherty relates, "Hypergraphia stems from an internal drive, from a love of the work, not from external influences like money, fame, or spirituality…That's true of bad as well as good writing...I feel joy when I'm writing well.
		AF: Hypergraphia is. But I think the temporal lobe controls equivalents in other fields.
	www.identitytheory.com /interviews/birnbaum141.php (6366 words)

	Hypergraphia Comics » About
		Founded in 2007 by writer/poet Matthew Tomao and entrepreneur Michael Geller, Hypergraphia’s mission is to give our readers outstanding entertainment value by continuously providing the finest creative, printing and ethical standards in the publishing industry.
		Hypergraphia will force you to question your beliefs!
		Both Vincent van Gogh and Fedor Dostoevsky are reported to have been affected by Hypergraphia.
	www.hypergraphiacomics.com (76 words)

	Laura Seabrook's Web Comix (Hypergraphia)
		I started doing Hypergraphia after friends came up to attend This Is Not Art at Newcastle in 2001.
		I found that this stirred something in me, and I quickly produced the first Hypergraphia (the title means "obsessive autobiographical writing") with a couple of pages of original work, and the rest were reprints of strips I'd done years before.
		This reprints several stories and strips from Hypergraphia issues 1 to 6, and includes the whole of issue # 3 (The Sex and Gender issue).
	lauraseabrook.comicgenesis.com /BG_Hyper.html (180 words)

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