Contingent Drug Tolerance Differential Tolerance to the Anticonvulsant,

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The prediction of the drug tolerance was based on drug effect theory stated that functional tolerance is an adaptation to disruptive effects of drugs on continuing patterns of neutral activity, instead of exposure to the drug itself. The drug effect theory has used before-and-after experiments. There are two groups in the before-and-after design experiment. The first group: the subjects receive drug after they tested on criterion on each tolerance trail. The second group: the subjects receive drug before they tested on criterion to react on each tolerance trail. As the results of the before-and-after experiment according to the drug-effect theory, tolerance is significantly greater in the group that received drug-before test on each tolerance development trial than in the other group received drug-after-test. Greater tolerance was in drug before group because they repeatedly experience the effect of the drug on the performance.
The propose of this experiment is to present more support for the drug-effect theory to simplifying that the development of tolerance subjects can have an ...

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