# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/s-m
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:21:47.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/s-m"
name: "S.M."
slug: "s-m"
description: "S.M., sometimes referred to as SM-046, is an American woman with a peculiar type of brain damage that physiologically reduces her ability to feel fear. First described by scientists in 1994, she has had exclusive and complete bilateral amygdala destruction since late childhood as a consequence of Urbach–Wiethe disease. Dubbed by the media as the \"woman with no fear\", S.M. has been studied extensively in scientific research; she has helped researchers elucidate the function of the amygdala."
tagline: "Medical patient"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.49
  momentum:             25
  historical:           6.284806666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M."
    title: "S.M."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._(patient)"
    title: "S.M. (patient)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._(paciente)"
    title: "S.M. (paciente)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M."
    title: "S.M."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_(paciente)"
    title: "SM (paciente)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M."
    title: "S.M."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19832450"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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