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antagonist
a chemical that acts within the body to reduce the physiological activity of another chemical substance (as an opiate); especially :  one that opposes the action on the nervous system of a drug or a substance occurring naturally in the body by combining with and blocking its nervous receptor
Author: Valery Yevarouski
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02.01.2018
We can give an opposite example. The alliesthesia is usually explained in the way we eat sweets. The first one we eat with great pleasure, e...
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16.01.2017
Within the goal-setting conditions,  subjects adopted either distal goals defined in terms of weekly goal  limits or proximal goal...
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16.01.2017
Kalivas, PETER W., and Nora D. Volkow. 2005. “The neural basis of addiction: a pathology of motivation and choice.” The American Journal of ...