Many anxiety disorders also show an overactive amygdala and periaqueductal gray area which can have negative repercussions not just on the brain but on our bodies.
The first is urge incontinence, which is when someone has a sudden urge to urinate because of an " overactive bladder" , followed immediately by involuntary urination.
A lesion on a specific part of the temporal lobe may destroy a person's ability to recognize faces; traumatic memories or overactive hormones can profoundly affect our behavior and emotions
Later stories that his father was a violent alcoholic who would smother his children with chloroform soaked handkerchiefs to 'teach them a lesson' are the result of a newspaper writer's overactive imagination.
Cyndi Shannon Weickert: We actually have a proposal in to do a clinical trial looking at that very thing where we are targeting a particular molecule in the immune system that is overactive in people with schizophrenia.