# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-barkley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:47:38.995Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russell-barkley"
name: "Russell Barkley"
slug: "russell-barkley"
description: "Russell Alan Barkley FAPA is a retired American clinical neuropsychologist who was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the VCU Medical Center until 2022 and president of Division 12 of the American Psychological Association (APA) and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. Involved in research since 1973 and a licensed psychologist since 1977, he is an expert on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and has devoted much of his scientific career to studying ADHD and related fields like childhood defiance. He proposed the renaming of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) to cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS)."
tagline: "American psychologist and author"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.russellbarkley.org"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump