Professor of Neurology at Istanbul Bahcesehir University
Dr. Asli Demirtas-Tatlidede is a Professor of Neurology at Istanbul Bahcesehir University. She received her M.D. degree from Hacettepe University English Medical School in Ankara, Turkey. After completing her residency in Neurology at Sisli Etfal Hospital, she was awarded a fellowship by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and completed a three-year post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School BIDMC, Behavioral Neurology Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation. Upon her return, she joined the Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders Unit at Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, where she completed a clinical fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience from Istanbul University Experimental Medicine Research Institute in 2018. She is the Director of Gero-neuropsychiatry and TMS Clinical Treatment Unit at the French La Paix Hospital. She is a founding member and current director of Marmara Branch of the Turkish Alzheimer Association.
Her clinical work and research mainly focus on dementia, behavioral neurology, movement disorders, neuropsychiatry, neurological and psychiatric applications of noninvasive brain stimulation. Her major area of research interest is the use of noninvasive brain stimulation in diagnosis and treatment of neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases. Dr. Demirtas-Tatlidede was granted the Young Investigator Award by American Neuropsychiatric Association in 2011.