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Email from Mark Tramo to Jeffrey Epstein on Kanye West and Bipolar Disorder (File 029516)
Email from UCLA neurology and musicology professor Mark Tramo to Jeffrey Epstein discussing Kanye West's behavior during an Oval Office visit with Donald Trump and Jim Brown, analyzing psychiatric symptoms including hypomania and pressured speech.
Summary
Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD from UCLA, emails Jeffrey Epstein about a Kanye West appearance in the Oval Office with Donald Trump and Jim Brown. Tramo uses the clip as a teaching tool in his Talent & Creativity class to illustrate the connection between creativity and psychopathology. He identifies psychiatric symptoms in West's behavior including flight of ideas, pressured speech, delusions of grandeur, and clang associations, characterizing the display as hypomania. Tramo references a book on hypomania and success in contemporary America.
From: MARK TRAMOSent: 10/14/2018 5:16:21 PMTo: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]Subject: Donald Trump, Kanye West, and the diagnosis of Bipolar DiseaseImportance: HighGiven your interest in Creativity:Did you see the entire Kanye West soliloquy in the Oval Office with Trump and Jim Brown? I am using thatclip in my Talent & Creativity class when we discuss "Creativity & Psychopathology." In Psychiatry, the formalterms that apply are "flight of ideas," "pressured speech," "delusions of grandeur,", and "clang associations." Atruly great example of Hypomania. There's an interesting book on hypomania and success in America today.xxxMark Jude Tramo, MD PhDDept of Integrative Biology & Physiology, UCLA School of Letters & ScienceDept of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLADept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of MusicDirector, The Institute for Music & Brain ScienceCo-Director, University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI)http://www.BrainMusic.orghttp://merci.ucsd.eduHOUSE OVERSIGHT 029516