macrography

Examination of his handwriting shows an alternation of macrography with micrography, and to this much importance is attributed, not only because this state is often present in epileptics, but because it is associated with impulse and with double personality.

1899 January, “Luccheni: the Murderer of the Empress of Austria”, in The Journal of Mental Science, volume 45, number 188, →ISSN, page 121

Thus, according to various functional and organic abnormalities that can be installed, the writing disorders can be classified into the following categoriesⁱ: writing rhythm (increased rhythm or graphorrhea, vs. low rate); graphic morphology disorders (micrography, macrography, seismic handwriting), impaired semantic graphical forms (Schizophrenia handwriting, hermetic writing, doodles).

2012, Violeta Gabriela Băncilă, “The forensic importance of handwriting pathology in major psychiatric disorders”, in International Journal of Criminal Investigation, volume 2, number 3, page 210

In HD patients, the main pathological motor symptoms are involuntary movements (chorea), difficulties with beginning voluntary movements (akinesia), or slowing down of movements (bradykinesia): they cause the patient’s many different problems, inter alia hyperkinetic dysarthria and writing difficulties manifested in shapeless, sharply defined letters, and in macrography (handwriting is too large or gradually increases in the course of writing), which occurs when chorea is stronger than bradykinesia

2021, Urszula Mirecka, “Graphomotor skills in dysarthric persons”, in Logopedia, volumes 43–44, →ISSN, page 189

The handwriting of the study participants was seen to be larger and occupy a larger space in the manic period. […] While a reduced dopamine level leads to micrography (17), we suggest that the increased level of dopamine seen in mania could cause macrography.

2022, Nusret Ayaz et al., “The Use of Handwriting Changes for the Follow-up of Patients with Bipolar Disorder”, in Archives of Neuropsychiatry, volume 59, number 1, →ISSN