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• s  abnormally inactive

• They have experimented with the following "antagonistic" conditions: high and low blood pressure, overactive and underactive thyroid conditions, leukemia (overproduction of .
• It may turn out that some anxiety disorders are caused by an overactive amygdala (the accelerator) while others are caused by an underactive prefrontal cortex (call it the brake).
• It shouldn't be surprising that many overfed, underactive kids lose the battle with their weight.

• hypoactive

News & Articles

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• Startup RaNA Therapeutics developing novel medicine to turn on ‘silent’ genes
  A new class of medicines could give doctors the ability to awaken underperforming genes in patients who currently have no treatment options. Boston-area startup RaNA Therapeutics is developing a novel kind of medicine that can boost the activity of genes that may be silenced or underactive and thus cause disease. The medicine would use a [...]
  July 30, 2013 - MedCity News