Adem Yıldırım

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adem YILDIRIM was born in Erzurum in 1980. He completed his primary and middle school education in Ankara and İzmir, and finished high school in İzmir/Karşıyaka, a place he dearly loves and where he spent his childhood. After high school, between 1997 and 2004, he studied medicine at Gaziantep University Faculty of Medicine. From 2005 to 2007, he completed his specialty training in Neurology at İzmir Alsancak Nevvar Salih İşgören Hospital and Atatürk University in Erzurum. For his specialty thesis, he examined the effectiveness of diagnostic and treatment practices focused on neuro-social cognition and interactions in the rehabilitation of patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson’s disease. Following this, Yıldırım served as a clinical researcher at the Neurology Institute of Northwestern University in Chicago from 2009 to 2013. During his 13 months at Northwestern, he worked on myelin treatments and synapse repair applications related to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), computer-assisted neurotherapy, and psychotherapy for patients with Parkinson’s and MS. He was one of the first four specialists internationally to receive certification for Deep TMS applications in treatment processes. He worked as a Neurology Specialist and Psychotherapist research fellow at Northwestern Medicine University and completed the International Multidisciplinary Neuroscience PhD (IGSN) Program at the same university with distinction, earning his doctorate in Brain and Neuroscience. Currently, Yıldırım continues his research on MS, Parkinson’s, and Dementia. He is also a member of the Turkish Medical Association, the International MS Society, the Editorial Board of Türkiye Klinikleri Publishing, the International Association of Psychotherapists and Psychiatrists, and the World Doctors Association. He has published research articles in internationally indexed reputable journals (SCI/SCI-E/AHCI). His studies focus on invasive applications in Parkinson’s, psychotherapy and neurotherapy in MS treatment, and the efficacy and continuity of these treatment methods. He has also authored three books and is currently working on a book scheduled for 2025 about diagnosis and treatment methods for MS patients. He has presented numerous papers and reports at conferences. His research interests include neuroimaging, social cognition, decision-making behavior, neuroeconomics, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and dementia.