Neurology

Prof. Dr. Barış Metin

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Areas of expertise

Sleep Disorders
Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders
Dementia
Headaches
Attention and Memory Disorders
Epilepsy
Electroencephalography (EEG)

About

Prof. Dr. Barış Metin is a neurologist at NPİSTANBUL Hospital who also holds a doctorate in psychology.

Education and career

Born in 1980, he earned his medical degree from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine in 2004 and, starting that same year, trained in the faculty’s Department of Neurology, becoming board-certified in 2009.

He spent 2009–2013 at Ghent University in Belgium as a research assistant and doctoral candidate, carrying out neuroimaging research on attention, and was awarded his Ph.D. in psychology in 2013. He stayed on at Ghent through 2013 and 2014 as a postdoctoral researcher, funded by a university research fellowship. In June 2014 he joined Üsküdar University’s Faculty of Human and Social Sciences as an assistant professor and began practising as a neurologist at NPİSTANBUL. He became an associate professor in 2016 and a full professor in 2020.

Research interests

Dementia
Sleep disorders
Headache
Parkinson’s disease
Attention and memory disorders
Epilepsy
Electroencephalography (EEG)

Education

2013: Ghent University, Belgium – Ph.D.
2010: European Academy of Neurology Equivalency Exam
2009: Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine – Department of Neurology
2004: Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine

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