# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-linden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:27:46.301Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-linden"
name: "David Linden"
slug: "david-linden"
description: "David J. Linden is an American professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and the author of The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God.\n The book The Accidental Mind is an attempt to explain the human brain to intelligent lay readers, and recently received a silver medal in the category of Science from the Independent Publisher Association. As of July 1, 2008, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology.\nLinden's second book, The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good, was released on April 14, 2011 (ISBN 978-0670022588)."
tagline: "American neuroscientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DJQLinden.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
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birthDate: "1961-11-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.528588098016336
  historical:           7.235568000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm4762926"
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    url:       "https://davidlinden.org/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump