Syracuse, NY — With two visible and audible meteors in less than two weeks, the skies over Central New York have been a busy place recently. Syracuse University physicist Dr. Walter Freeman says, ...

In the early 20th century we had very little understanding of mental illness and how to treat it. Into this knowledge vacuum stepped Walter Freeman, a charismatic American neurologist with a bold ...

“Doctors say that worry can be cut out of the brain with a knife. There is a better way. GO TO CHURCH.” So read one newspaper reaction to Dr. Walter Freeman’s lobotomy exhibit at a medical convention ...

Neurologist Dr. Walter Freeman, disturbed by the horrendous conditions in mental asylums in the 1920s and the lack of medical treatments, popularized the wide use of lobotomies. His shortcut version ...

On Mondays we read from your e-mails. And this week we focus on the enormous response to our show last week with Howard Dully. That followed the broadcast of his radio documentary "My Lobotomy." ...

Dr. Walter Freeman was a neurologist who performed over 2000 lobotomies in the course of his controversial career. Though he claimed to want to help people in mental wards, Freeman continued to do ...

As the father of psychosurgery in the U.S., Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman bears a heavy burden of responsibility, both medical and moral. With Dr. James Watts, he introduced the drastic ...

GREENWICH — It was one of the worst medical scandals in American history — the lobotomy. Promoted by a polished and utterly respectable neurologist, the procedure punctured the frontal cortex of the ...

A new film, “Nuremberg,” starring Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, explores the interactions between Nazi leader Hermann Göring ...