Medical Dictionary

flight of ideas

noun \ˌflīt-əv-(ˌ)ī-ˈdē-əz\

Medical Definition of FLIGHT OF IDEAS

:  a rapid shifting of ideas with only superficial associative connections between them that is expressed as a disconnected rambling from subject to subject and occurs especially in the manic phase of bipolar disorder

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