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In 1974 Waxman and Geschwind1 described hypergraphia, a tendency toward extensive and compulsive writing, in seven patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. The excessive writings were also described as meticulous and pedantic, at times containing moral and religious overtones. The authors attributed this interictal phenomenon to a “deepening of the emotional response in the presence of preserved intellectual function.”1
We describe a case of hypergraphia in a patient with temporal lobe dysfunction whereby handwritten text is augmented by the use of computer technology to generate excessive and extraneous graphs, tables, and typewritten text and publication of a comprehensive Web site. We propose that the era is a determining factor in the hypergraphia phenotype observed in patients with nondominant temporal lobe dysfunction.
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A previously healthy right-handed man aged 31 years was hospitalized on three occasions during a 4-month period for complaints of headache, focal weakness, sensory complaints, and transient language …
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