# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-j-sahakian
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:02:18.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-j-sahakian"
name: "Barbara J. Sahakian"
slug: "barbara-j-sahakian"
description: "Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian is an English neuroscientist who is professor of clinical neuropsychology at the department of psychiatry and Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge. She is also an honorary clinical psychologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. She has an international reputation in the fields of cognitive psychopharmacology, neuroethics, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry and neuroimaging. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2024 Birthday Honours."
tagline: "Neuropsychologist"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1952-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.941176470588236
  historical:           5.275414666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Саакян, Барбара Жаклин"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump