hyperfunctioning

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English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ functioning.

Noun

hyperfunctioning (uncountable)

  1. Excessive functioning
    • 2015 July 6, “Altered Resting-State Brain Activity and Connectivity in Depressed Parkinson’s Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      Increased local activities of the MCC were correlated with enhanced FC between the MCC and the DMN nodes in the current study, implying that local abnormalities and hyperfunctioning of the MCC might have led to network level abnormalities in the limbic-cortical circuits.