Psychiatry
Dr. Yeşim Olğun Kantaş
Languages: Turkish English
Areas of expertise
- Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders
- Geriatric Psychiatry
- Dementia
About
Dr. Yeşim Olğun Kantaş is a psychiatrist whose interests range from psychotic and mood disorders to geriatric psychiatry, neurophysiology and brain stimulation treatments.
Education and training
Born in Aydın in 1993, she finished İzmir Science High School in 2011 and qualified as a Doctor of Medicine at Hacettepe University School of Medicine in 2017. She started psychiatry residency at Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine in 2018 and became board-certified in 2022, with the thesis “Investigation of Long-Term Potentiation-Like Plasticity, Quantitative EEG Features, and Serum Prolactin, Oxytocin, and BDNF Levels in the Differential Diagnosis of Dementia Subtypes.” She then carried out her compulsory state service from 2022 to 2024 at Giresun Prof. Dr. A. İlhan Özdemir State Hospital.
Areas of interest
- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Mood disorders
- Alcohol and substance use disorders
- Geriatric psychiatry and dementia
- Neurophysiology
- Brain stimulation treatments (rTMS, deep TMS)
- Cognitive-behavioural therapies
- EMDR
- Psychodynamic psychotherapies
Education
- Residency in Psychiatry – Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine (2018–2022)
- Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine – English Program (2011–2017)
- Izmir Science High School – (2007–2011)
- TED College – Aydın (2005–2007)
- *CBT Basic Theory Training – 2021 (coordinated by Prof. Dr. Hakan Türkçapar)
- *CBT Skills Training and Supervision Practices – 2023 (Coordinated by Prof. Dr. Hakan Türkçapar)
- *CETAD – Association for Sex Education, Therapy, and Research – Basic Training in Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunctions – 2020
- *TPD Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies Training in Memory of Celal ODAĞ – 2022
- *TPD Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Supervision Training – 2020, 2021, 2024
- *EMDR Training – Burhanettin Kaya – 2024
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
- Dr. Bahruz Shukurov
- Prof. Dr. K. Nevzat Tarhan Chairman of the Board of Directors, NPİSTANBUL
- Prof. Dr. Hüsnü Erkmen
- Prof. Dr. H. Nesrin Dilbaz
- Prof. Dr. Sermin Kesebir
- Prof. Dr. Gül Eryılmaz