tachyphrenia
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edittachyphrenia (uncountable)
- (medicine) unusually rapid thought; mental hyperactivity
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- 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.