Former Republican Senator and Defense Secretary William Cohen described GOP officials downplaying the January 6th insurrection as “trying to perform a frontal lobotomy on the American people.” “I ...

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 ...

Reading Richard McNally’s review of “Desperate Remedies” (Books, May 14), I am reminded that the frontal lobotomy, now considered barbaric, was worthy of a Nobel Prize in my grandparents’ era. I have ...