# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lucio-bini
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:28:03.124Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lucio-bini"
name: "Lucio Bini"
slug: "lucio-bini"
description: "Lucio Bini was an Italian psychiatrist and professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. Together with Ugo Cerletti, a neurophysiologist and a psychiatrist, he researched and discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy, a type of shock therapy for mental diseases. He is regarded as the technical and physiological architect of electroconvulsive therapy, designing the original Cerletti–Bini apparatus used to induce therapeutic seizures in patients with psychotic disorders in 1938–1939."
tagline: "Italian psychiatrist (1908–1964)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1908-09-18"
deathDate: "1964-08-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.007776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "卢乔·比尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لوسيو بينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%84%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B9"
    title: "Λούτσιο Μπίνι"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Bini"
    title: "Lucio Bini"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%DA%86%D9%88_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "لوچو بینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Bini"
    title: "Lucio Bini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Bini"
    title: "Lucio Bini"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Bini"
    title: "Lucio Bini"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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