Rickie Fowler

In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is a common cause of bad backs - and bad shots - for golfers of all levels. In addition to resting, I worked with my trainer, Joey Diovisalvi, on strengthening the weaker lower-body muscles that contributed to my overactive hips and back pain.

American Athlete

When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I've had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.

American Musician

J. K. Rowling

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

English Author

Sonam Kapoor

I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.

Indian Actress

Rick Wakeman

I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.

British Musician

Melissa McCarthy

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

American Actress

Jake Gyllenhaal

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

American Actor

Ryan Gosling

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

Canadian Actor

Natalia Dyer

Good luck dragging me into a horror movie! I get so scared. It's an overactive imagination or something.

Daniel Radcliffe

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

British Actor

Indicates an action or a function that is excessively or unnecessarily active, beyond normal limits.

Exaggerated Activity

Often used in medical settings to describe glands or organs functioning at a higher than normal rate.

Medical Context

Used metaphorically to describe thoughts, imagination, or emotions that are intense or uncontrollable.

Metaphorical Use

 It's called the basket cell. And this cell is one of the thousands of kinds of cell that we're learning about. New ones are being discovered every day. As just a second these pyramidal cells, large cells, can span a significant fraction of the brain. They're excitatory. And these are some of the cells that might be overactive in disorders such as epilepsy.

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 We can introduce electrodes within those circuits. We can graduate the activity of those circuits. We can turn them down if they are overactive, if they're causing trouble, trouble that is felt throughout the brain, or we can turn them up if they are underperforming, and in so doing, we think that we may be able to help

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 the circuits we can turn them down if they are overactive if they're causing trouble trouble that is fell throughout the brain or we can turn them up if they are underperforming and in so doing we think that we may be able to help the overall function of the brain the implications of this of course is that

Parkinson's, depression...

 look into somebody's eyes and I feel like I can't break away for that I mean I would basically have to go into collisions right this is a safe space for speculation it might be that for instance your amygdala might be slightly overactive amygdala is a small cluster of neurons deep in your brain that's

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 could account for different seizure types and symptoms. So if seizures were due to neurons misfiring, how could doctors stop this from happening? Physicians like Sir Charles Locock hypothesized that sedative drugs might calm overactive brain activity, a theory he confirmed by treating seizures

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 So what do we do? Knowing that we have this overactive attention, how do we ensure that we perform at our best? A lot of it comes down to the prefrontal cortex, that front part of our brain that sits over our eyes and usually helps us focus in positive ways.

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 which happens when the organ sends out too many hormones. That means the cells are overloaded with instructions to consume nutrients and oxygen. They become overactive as a result, meaning a person with hyperthyroidism experiences a higher metabolism

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 or urinating without proper physical support may over time weaken or overwork that muscular sling. That can lead to an overactive pelvic floor, bladder pain, urgency, or urinary incontinence. So in the interest of long-term health,

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 beckoning the immune system to attack. For patients with autoimmune disorders, we can send in signals that tamp down their overactive immune systems.

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 So, my mother's a pediatrician, and when I was young, she'd tell the craziest stories that combined science with her overactive imagination.

Overactive

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