# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-cade
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:42:30.726Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-cade"
name: "John Cade"
slug: "john-cade"
description: "John Frederick Joseph Cade AO was an Australian psychiatrist who in 1948 discovered the effects of lithium as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder, then known as manic depression. At a time when the standard treatments for mania were electroconvulsive therapy and lobotomy, lithium had the distinction of being the first effective medication available to treat a mental illness. Cade's discovery in 1948 began a revolution in psychopharmacology."
tagline: "Australian psychiatrist (1912-1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Cade_1971_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1912-01-18"
deathDate: "1980-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.895862666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%DB%8C%DA%88"
    title: "جان کیڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون كيد (طبيب نفسي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cade"
    title: "John Cade"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cade"
    title: "John Cade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cade"
    title: "John Cade"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cade"
    title: "John Cade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89"
    title: "ジョン・ケイド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cade"
    title: "John Cade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEon_Kejd"
    title: "Džon Kejd"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3181170"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump