Edmund James Stephen Sonuga-Barke, FBA, FMedSci, MAE, (born 1962) is a developmental psychologist and academic.
Edmund James Stephen Barke was born in Derby in 1962; he later adopted a double-barrelled surname for his academic work, combining his family name with that of his wife, Funke Sonuga, whom he married in 1987.
[4] After a year as a research psychologist at the University of London, Sonuga-Barke was appointed to a lectureship at the Institute of Psychiatry in 1988.
[10] According to the British Academy's profile, his research focuses on "The developmental psychopathology and neuroscience of child and adolescent mental health and disorder".
[13] Together with Professor Sir Michael Rutter he led the English and Romanian Adoptees study [14] which, discovered how exposure to early childhood severe institutional deprivation can lead to variants of neuro-developmental conditions such as ADHD[15] and autism[16] that strongly persist into adulthood.