Vol. 3, No. 2, 1997 Page 8

QUOTABLE: The Frontiers of Medicine, TIME, Fall 1996 Special Issue

"[Dr. Leroy Hood, chairman of the molecular biology department at the University of Washington] predicts that it will not be the 'medical' genes but the behavioral genes that will eventually stir the greatest public interest. 'We now know that there are genes that predispose to risk taking, and almost certainly there are genes that predispose to violence,' Hood says. Such genes, and the neurotransmitters they most likely are responsible for, he suggests, can lead eventually to drugs 'that will do away with mental disease.'"

The Frontiers of Medicine, TIME, Fall 1996 Special Issue

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