# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-carmela-lico
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:30:09.306Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-carmela-lico"
name: "Maria Carmela Lico"
slug: "maria-carmela-lico"
description: "Maria Carmela Lico or Licco (1927–1985) spent most of her research life as a physiologist studying the neural mechanisms of pain at the Department of Physiology of the Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (Brazil). Lico produced important insights on the descending control of nociception by limbic structures, specially the septal nuclei."
tagline: "Italian-Brazilian physiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria_Carmela_Lico.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
birthDate: "1927"
deathDate: "1985"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.334125333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Maria Carmela Lico"
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    title: "ماريا كارميلا ليكو"
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    title: "ماريا كارميلا ليكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Carmela_Lico"
    title: "Maria Carmela Lico"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Carmela_Lico"
    title: "Maria Carmela Lico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Carmela_Lico"
    title: "Maria Carmela Lico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Carmela_Lico"
    title: "Maria Carmela Lico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16011299"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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