What does tachyphrenia mean?
Tachyphrenia means (medicine) unusually rapid thought; mental hyperactivity.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(medicine) unusually rapid thought; mental hyperactivity.
The thought stream, the stream of consciousness, speeds up in these patients with L-DOPA, often speeding too far, into a veritable tachyphrenia, with thoughts and associations almost too fast to follow.
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Tachyphrenia means (medicine) unusually rapid thought; mental hyperactivity.
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The thought stream, the stream of consciousness, speeds up in these patients with L-DOPA, often speeding too far, into a veritable tachyphrenia, with thoughts and associations almost too fast to follow.
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