Sentences with 'hyperactive'

Example sentences and phrases with the word hyperactive and other words derived from it.

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« Currently, children suspected of being hyperactive are treated with low doses of certain drugs, such as Ritalin, to reduce restlessness and improve attention. However, there can be side effects; critics argue that the use of such drugs is abused. »
« These findings, recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, could eventually lead to the design of a much-needed diagnostic test, and would silence those who sceptically argue that all hyperactive children have is that they are "annoying". »
« In the hyperactive subjects, brain metabolism was found to be eight per cent lower than in a control group of 15 normal adults. The differences were found mainly in two brain regions involved in regulating attention and controlling mobility: the premotor cortex and the superior prefrontal cortex. »
« In this new situation, some large, slow and obsolete cells found advantages in allowing themselves to be parasitised by smaller but aerobic, and therefore hyperactive, cells. The invaders secured their dinner, but the invaded cells enjoyed, in return, such a bestial surplus of energy that they ended up adopting the manic dwarfs as an integral part of their own organisms: mitochondria were born. »

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