
|Articles|July 14, 2010
Understanding Mental Disorders-No Easy Answers
Author(s)Allen Frances, MD, Allen Frances, MD
The basic problem is that the body is extremely complicated and most diseases don't arise from anything resembling simple genetic causes. We are the miraculous result of an exquisitely wrought DNA engineering that has to get trillions and trillions of steps just right. But any super-complicated system will have its occasional chaotic glitch.
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