My Neuroscience PhD Student Uğur Aylak has successfully completed his thesis entitled "Investigation of Cognition, Empathy and Anxiety Status in Patients with Tension-Type Headache". I wish him all the best in his future career 😊 I would also like to thank jury members, Prof. Dr. Burak Yuluğ, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şeyda Çankaya, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Timuçin Avşar, Assist. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Keskin Ergen and Assist. Prof. Dr. Faize Elif Bahadır for their invaluable comments.
Assist. Prof. Mehmet Ozansoy
About Us
OZANSOY LAB is being led by Mehmet Ozansoy, Ph.D. He is a molecular biologist working in the field of neuroscience since 2000. Our team has two primary focuses:
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Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and ALS. Specifically we are generating in vitro models of these disorders and the roles of regulatory RNAs in the molecular/cellular mechanisms of them. We have also research projects related for hunting new biomarkers for these diseases.
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Neurophysiological and neurocognitive mechanisms underlying time perception and brain rhythms.
Our group is made up of graduate students (Ph.D. and MSc.) joined us from Neuroscience Ph.D. and Master Programmes and also students of medical schools from Istanbul Medipol University and Bahçeşehir University.
News
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17 June 2026
I am proud to share that my Neuroscience PhD student Uğur Aylak has published a research article entitled "The relationship between empathy and cognition in patients with tension type headache" doi: 10.5455/annalsmedres.2025.08.243." This article is derived from his thesis study, which he is currently preparing for his thesis defence. Congratulations, Uğur.
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12 June 2026
I am pleased to announce the publication of our new paper entitled "Transcranial alternating current stimulation improves cognitive functions in healthy subjects through modifying frontoparietal and dorsal attention networks based on personalized individual theta frequency analysis"
doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2026.1821101. This work was co-authored by my former Neuroscience Master's student Aleksandra Berekelia and myself.
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03 April 2026
I am delighted to have made a modest contribution to the multi-center study entitled "The exposome of brain aging across 34 countries" published in Nature Medicine doi: 10.1038/s41591-026-04302-z