Psychiatry
Asst. Prof. Dr. Alptekin Çetin
Languages: Turkish English
Areas of expertise
- Alcohol Addiction
- Substance Addiction
- Behavioral Addictions
- Schizophrenia
- Depression
- Mood Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders
About
Asst. Prof. Dr. Alptekin Çetin is a psychiatrist in the outpatient clinic of NPİSTANBUL Hospital, where he previously spent eight years caring for inpatients in the AMATEM addiction treatment unit.
Education
Born in 1982, he finished Denizli Science High School in 2000 and graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 2006. Passing the national medical specialty exam (TUS) that year, he began psychiatry residency in the Department of Psychiatry at Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine. Alongside his residency he spent a period on the “Tobacco Control Training” programme of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
He became a board-certified psychiatrist in 2011, with a thesis on the “Assessment of Smoking Among Schizophrenia Patients Hospitalized in a Psychiatric Ward.”
Career
After compulsory service at Acıpayam State Hospital, he joined NPİSTANBUL’s AMATEM unit as a staff physician in 2014. Following eight years of inpatient follow-up there, he moved to the hospital’s outpatient clinic, where he continues to practise. Throughout his medical and mental health training he has steadily built up both his theoretical and his clinical knowledge.
Education
- 2006–2011: Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University
- 2000–2006: Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine
Conditions treated
Treatments and technology
- Technology Transcranial magnetic stimulation A non-invasive treatment that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate specific brain regions, mainly for depression that has not responded to medication.
Other specialists in this field
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Elvan Çiftçi
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Firdevs Seyfe Şen
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Nihal Taştekin
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Murat Yusuf Hüseyin
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Emine Yağmur Zorbozan
- Dr. Deniz Dolaş