An illustration of the human brain. (American Heart Association/Reuters) Toward the end of his life, Dr. Walter Freeman crisscrossed the United States to seek out his former patients and follow up ...

Into this knowledge vacuum stepped Walter Freeman, a charismatic American neurologist with a bold solution—the frontal lobotomy. Freeman didn’t invent the procedure, but he made it into a ...

Ruby Waltner, 94, of Freeman, S.D., passed away on June 28 at the Freeman hospital. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m ...

Rosemary Kennedy underwent a prefrontal lobotomy at age 23 that was ordered by her father, Joe Kennedy, in an attempt to ease her emotional outbursts.

Patricia Moen was lobotomized by Walter Freeman in 1962 at the age of 36. Wolfhard Baumgartel was a staff physician at the Athens State Hospital in Ohio in the 1950s, where he observed Dr. Walter ...

In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most ...

The controversial career of Dr. Walter Freeman, a neurologist and a brain doctor who performed over 2,000 lobotomies during his career, began in the 1920s and 1930s.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband – James Walter Freeman, Sr. (2001), son – James Walter Freeman, Jr., 2 brothers – Gregory Huber & Arnold Huber and sister Mary Wolf.

Greenwich author Samantha Greene Woodruff poses with her 2022 novel "The Lobotomist's Wife" at Greenwich Library in Greenwich, Conn. Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023.