BRAIN OF DR. LEY
LONG-STANDING DISEASE Recd. 6 p.m. Washington, Jan. 17. Sclent sts of the Army Institute of Pathology, who examined the brain of Dr. Robert Ley reported a Jong standing brain disease, “sufficient to have impaired his mental and emotional faculties.” Extensive studies of the brain of Ley, who directed the seizure of German trade unions, helped to conscript German youth for labour, and sougnl to pumo the Nazi philosophy into all German workers, showed that the mental disease process was going on for years. Scienists said the brain disclosed a degenerat ve process of the frontal lobes, which control the emotions and thinking, and while the cause of degeneration remains obscure it was definitely not caused by bacteria. The degeneration, however, was of a duration and degree to have impaired Ley’s mental and emotional faculties, and could well have brought about his aberrations in conduct and feeling. The impairment of the brain that Ley suffered usually makes the sufferer lose sense of relative values, and the individual is usually given to self glorification, and may even become infantile in conduct
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 16, 19 January 1946, Page 5
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