Logorrhea is a verbal overproduction characterized by a rapid, long and diffuse flow of words. This medical term is often used in psychiatry. Logorrhea is often a sign of a psychiatric disorder and usually occurs during manic attacks.

Logorrhea is a medical term for verbal overproduction. A person with logorrhea feels an inexhaustible urge to speak. His flow of words is precipitous, diffuse and continuous. Logorrhea is often associated with tachyphemia, that is, a gradual acceleration in the rate of speech.

In logorrhea, the lyrics can sometimes be organized around a predominant theme but are usually scattered and inconsistent. A person with logorrhea often jumps from one subject to another unexplainedly, which makes their speech difficult to understand. Logorrhea can thus be a sign of tachypsychia, an acceleration of the rhythm of the course of thought.

Logorrhea is a medical term that is primarily used in psychiatry. This language disorder is often seen during manic attacks in people with bipolar, or manic depression. People with logorrhea may have a speech rate of between 180 and 220 words per minute. Normally, the maximum speech rate is 150 words per minute.

Logorrhea can have different causes. It can occur in particular when:

• emotional or anxious elation;
• manic episodes, which are manifested by a state of euphoria;
• de bipolar disorders, which are serious mood disorders characterized by an alternation between a state of euphoria (manic episode) and a state of melancholy (depressive episode);
• de psychoses, such as schizophrenia, which are mental illnesses characterized by an alteration in thinking, perceptions, emotions, behavior, or even language;
• of Parkinson’s disease, which is a neurodegenerative disease caused by the breakdown of neurons in the brain;
• of dementias, which are cognitive disorders characterized by impaired cognitive functions such as memory, concentration and attention;
• frontal syndromes, which reflect an alteration of the frontal lobe caused by a trauma, a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or a tumor;
• of Wernicke’s aphasia, which is a disease caused by one or more lesions in the Wernicke area of ​​the brain and which induces a disorganization of language.

Logorrhea can manifest itself differently from person to person. The flow of words can be more or less disorganized depending on the case. The frequency of this language disorder can also vary. The severity and course of this symptom depend above all on the pathology causing the logorrhea.

Logorrhea is a symptom that can be easily identified by loved ones or a healthcare professional. In-depth medical examinations are often necessary to identify the cause of this language disorder and to define the appropriate medical management.

Treatment for logorrhea depends on the identified cause. It is usually based on drug therapy. Depending on the case, different drugs may be prescribed by health professionals:

• des thymorégulateurs, such as lithium salts, antiepileptics, or even atypical neuroleptics, which stabilize mood in bipolar disorder;
• sedative neuroleptics which can be used in case of manic attacks;
• antidepressants that help fight against manic and depressive episodes;
• antipsychotics which are prescribed in case of psychosis.

In some cases, a psychotherapy may also be recommended to treat the cause of logorrhea.