Editing Hypergraphia (section)

===Writing style===
American neurologists [[Stephen Waxman]] and [[Norman Geschwind]] were the first to describe hypergraphia, in the 1970s.<ref name="Waxman1974" />  The patients they observed displayed highly compulsive detailed writing, sometimes with literary creativity.  The patients kept diaries, which some used to meticulously document minute details of their everyday activities, write poetry, or create lists.  Case 1 of their study wrote lists of her relatives, her likes and dislikes, and the furniture in her apartment.  Beside lists, the patient wrote poetry, often with a moral or philosophical undertone.  She described an incident in which she wrote the lyrics of a song she learned when she was 17 several hundred times and another incident in which she felt the urge to write a word over and over again.  Another patient wrote [[aphorism]]s and certain sentences in repetition.<ref name=Waxman1974>{{cite journal|last=Waxman|first=SG|author2=Geschwind, N |title=Hypergraphia in temporal lobe epilepsy. 1974.|journal=Epilepsy & Behavior|date=March 2005 |volume=6|issue=2|pages=282–91|pmid=15710320|doi=10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.11.022|s2cid=32956175}}</ref>

A patient from a separate study experienced continuous "rhyming in his head" for five years after a seizure and said that he "felt the need to write them down."<ref name= Mendez1961>{{cite journal|last=Mendez |first=MF |title=Hypergraphia for poetry in an epileptic patient|journal=The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences|date=Fall 2005|volume=17|issue=4|pages=560–1|pmid=16388002|doi=10.1176/jnp.17.4.560}}</ref> The patient did not talk in rhyme, nor did he read poetry.  Language capacity and mental status were normal for this patient, except for recorded right-temporal spikes on [[electroencephalogram]]s.  This patient had right-hemisphere epilepsy.  Functional [[MRI]] scans of other studies suggest that rhyming behavior is produced in the left hemisphere, but Mendez proposed that postictal hypoactivity of the right hemisphere may induce a release of writing and rhyming abilities in the left hemisphere.<ref name=Mendez1961 />