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rate dependency

in behavioral pharmacology, the phenomenon in which the magnitude or direction (or both) of a drug’s effect on response rate depends on the response rate observed when the drug is not present. Typically, low response rates are increased by a drug, and high rates are either increased less or decreased.

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