William J. Walsh, PhD, FACN
Founder and Chief Scientist of Walsh Research Institute
Founder and Chief Scientist of Walsh Research Institute
Dr. Walsh’s varied career began as a nuclear scientist including top-secret hydrogen bomb development at Savannah River and plutonium research at Los Alamos. Disillusioned with weapons research, he became lead experimentalist for pyrochemical research at Argonne National Laboratory aimed at recovering valuable plutonium and uranium from power reactor spent fuels. He briefly directed Argonne’s electrochemistry program where he designed and patented the world’s most powerful rechargeable battery cell, and received a national IRB award for one of America’s most important technical achievements of the year. This early lithium battery cell led to a major electric vehicle program at Argonne. While at Argonne, he began personal research studying brain chemistry abnormalities in violent criminals at Stateville Correctional Center.
Leaving Argonne, he founded the non-profit Health Research Institute and devoted 18 years to scientific studies of criminal behavior. He organized a “Prisoner Assistance Program” that attracted more than 120 volunteers and directed an ex-offender project aimed at crime prevention. He was named “Prison Volunteer of the Year for Metropolitan Chicago” in 1981. He eventually developed the world’s largest chemistry database for violent criminals that included Charles Manson, Henry Lee Lucas, Richard Speck, and other notables. He became a forensics expert and assisted coroners, medical examiners, Scotland Yard, and police departments studying remains from numerous mass murderers. Dr. Walsh was Director of the Beethoven Research Project studying skull bone and other relics from the great composer. Working with scientists at the Argonne’s APS facility they learned Beethoven suffered from severe lead poisoning, a discovery that made headlines throughout the world. Working with the eminent Dr. Carl Pfeiffer (Princeton, NJ), they developed nutrient therapies for correcting metal-metabolism, methylation, and other chemical imbalances associated with behavior disorders. In 1989 he founded the Pfeiffer Treatment Center in Illinois that eventually treated more than 30,000 patients and collected massive chemical databases for behavior disorders, ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
William J. Walsh, PhD, FACN, president of the non-profit Walsh Research Institute, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of nutritional medicine and a key scientist paving the way for nutrient-based psychiatry and nutritional medicine. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Walsh has developed biochemical treatments for patients diagnosed with behavioral disorders, attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder, autism, clinical depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease that are used by doctors throughout the world. He has designed nutritional programs for Olympic athletes, NBA players, major league baseball players, a heavyweight boxing champion, PGA and LPGA golfers, and others. His book, Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain (Skyhorse Publishing, 2014, 2012), describes the evidence-based nutrient therapy system.
Dr. Walsh’s noted accomplishments include: (a) groundbreaking studies reporting reduced violent behavior following nutrient therapy, (b) the 1999 discovery of undermethylation and copper/zinc imbalances in autism, (c) the 2000 finding of metallothionein protein depletion in autism, (d) the 2007 published study linking copper overload and post-partum depression, (e) the identification of five biochemical subtypes of clinical depression, (f) the 2011 development of the Walsh Theory of Schizophrenia, and (g) the direction of the Beethoven Research Project that revealed that the composer suffered from severe lead poisoning.
In addition to Dr. Walsh’s ongoing research studies, he has led medical practitioner training programs in advanced, drug-free biochemical/nutrient therapies in Australia, Ireland, Norway, the United States and other countries. Dr. Walsh is a frequently invited guest lecturer having given more than 200 presentations at regional, national and international conferences and symposiums, including the American Psychiatric Association, the U.S. Senate, and the National Institutes of Mental Health. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and scientific reports, as well as been granted five patents.
Leaving Argonne, he founded the non-profit Health Research Institute and devoted 18 years to scientific studies of criminal behavior. He organized a “Prisoner Assistance Program” that attracted more than 120 volunteers and directed an ex-offender project aimed at crime prevention. He was named “Prison Volunteer of the Year for Metropolitan Chicago” in 1981. He eventually developed the world’s largest chemistry database for violent criminals that included Charles Manson, Henry Lee Lucas, Richard Speck, and other notables. He became a forensics expert and assisted coroners, medical examiners, Scotland Yard, and police departments studying remains from numerous mass murderers. Dr. Walsh was Director of the Beethoven Research Project studying skull bone and other relics from the great composer. Working with scientists at the Argonne’s APS facility they learned Beethoven suffered from severe lead poisoning, a discovery that made headlines throughout the world. Working with the eminent Dr. Carl Pfeiffer (Princeton, NJ), they developed nutrient therapies for correcting metal-metabolism, methylation, and other chemical imbalances associated with behavior disorders. In 1989 he founded the Pfeiffer Treatment Center in Illinois that eventually treated more than 30,000 patients and collected massive chemical databases for behavior disorders, ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
William J. Walsh, PhD, FACN, president of the non-profit Walsh Research Institute, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of nutritional medicine and a key scientist paving the way for nutrient-based psychiatry and nutritional medicine. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Walsh has developed biochemical treatments for patients diagnosed with behavioral disorders, attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder, autism, clinical depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease that are used by doctors throughout the world. He has designed nutritional programs for Olympic athletes, NBA players, major league baseball players, a heavyweight boxing champion, PGA and LPGA golfers, and others. His book, Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain (Skyhorse Publishing, 2014, 2012), describes the evidence-based nutrient therapy system.
Dr. Walsh’s noted accomplishments include: (a) groundbreaking studies reporting reduced violent behavior following nutrient therapy, (b) the 1999 discovery of undermethylation and copper/zinc imbalances in autism, (c) the 2000 finding of metallothionein protein depletion in autism, (d) the 2007 published study linking copper overload and post-partum depression, (e) the identification of five biochemical subtypes of clinical depression, (f) the 2011 development of the Walsh Theory of Schizophrenia, and (g) the direction of the Beethoven Research Project that revealed that the composer suffered from severe lead poisoning.
In addition to Dr. Walsh’s ongoing research studies, he has led medical practitioner training programs in advanced, drug-free biochemical/nutrient therapies in Australia, Ireland, Norway, the United States and other countries. Dr. Walsh is a frequently invited guest lecturer having given more than 200 presentations at regional, national and international conferences and symposiums, including the American Psychiatric Association, the U.S. Senate, and the National Institutes of Mental Health. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and scientific reports, as well as been granted five patents.