# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-e-ledoux
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:59:12.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-e-ledoux"
name: "Joseph E. LeDoux"
slug: "joseph-e-ledoux"
description: "Joseph E. LeDoux is an American neuroscientist whose research is primarily focused on survival circuits, including their impacts on emotions such as fear and anxiety. He is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, and director of the Emotional Brain Institute, a collaboration between NYU and New York State with research sites at NYU and the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York. He is also the lead singer and songwriter in the band The Amygdaloids."
tagline: "American neuroscientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.23
  momentum:             0.4511278195488723
  historical:           10.73218666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 205
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2460232/"
    handle:    "nm2460232"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%84%E7%91%9F%E5%A4%AB%C2%B7%E5%8B%92%E6%9D%9C%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF"
    title: "約瑟夫·勒杜克斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "چوزيف اى ليدوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_LeDoux"
    title: "Joseph LeDoux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._LeDoux"
    title: "Joseph E. LeDoux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._LeDoux"
    title: "Joseph E. LeDoux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_LeDoux"
    title: "Joseph LeDoux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_LeDoux"
    title: "Joseph LeDoux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BC%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジョゼフ・ルドゥー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%85%89_%EB%A5%B4%EB%91%90"
    title: "조셉 르두"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_LeDoux"
    title: "Joseph LeDoux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._LeDoux"
    title: "Joseph E. LeDoux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._LeDoux"
    title: "Joseph E. LeDoux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707263"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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