Prof. Dr. Sultan Tarlacı

Prof. Dr. Sultan Tarlacı is a neurologist, researcher and author whose work spans neurology, neuroscience and neurophilosophy.

Education

Born in Rize in 1970, Sultan Tarlacı finished medical school first in the class in 1995, earning an M.D., and completed neurology residency at Ege University in 2000.

Awards and honours

• 2000 – Research Incentive Award, Brain Research Association
• 2001 – TÜBİTAK–Brain Research Association Research Incentive Award
• 2003 – Sedat Simavi Health Sciences Award, Turkish Journalists’ Association
• 2014 – Honoured by NeoCortex, a student society that unites students of medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and other health sciences and guides them into scientific research

NeuroQuantology

Prof. Tarlacı founded, named and edits the International Journal of NeuroQuantology, a journal on neuroscience and quantum physics first published in 2003. It was accepted into the international SCI and SCI-E databases in January 2008 and, in its 15th year, was still appearing regularly with Prof. Tarlacı as editor-in-chief. A book on the subject, NeuroQuantology, was published abroad by Nova Publisher in 2014.

Research and public engagement

The Tarlacı bibliography includes more than 40 SCI-indexed research and review articles in neurology, neuroscience and neurophilosophy, which together have been cited almost 1,000 times internationally. Prof. Tarlacı is also a frequent guest on television, discussing neuroscience, the brain, cognitive science, borderline sciences, different states of consciousness and the behavioural sciences.

Books

• Emergency Neurological Diseases (2004/2008) – neurology textbook
• 197 Days (2014) – novel
• ÖlümSözlük (2016) – popular science
• Why Did Schrödinger’s Cat Become Schizophrenic? (2017) – popular science
• From the Cave to Mars (2017) – popular science
• Crime and the Brain (December 2017) – popular science