International / Bipolar Disorder Category
Title of Winning Proposal: H MR Spectroscopic Investigation of Manic Patients Before and After Administration of a Protein Kinase C Inhibitor: Tamoxifen: A Double Blind Placebo Controlled Study.
Aysegul Yildiz, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Dokoz Eylul Medical School
Izmir, Turkey
Dr.Yildiz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Dokuz Eylul Medical School, Izmir, Turkey. She is a graduate of the Hacettepe University, Medical School. She completed her residency training in psychiatry at the Dokuz Eylul Medical School.
Dr.Yildiz spent 2.5 years as a post-doctoral research fellow, both at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota and at the Bipolar Program, MGH, Harvard Medical School. During this period, under the directions of Drs. Ugurbil, Renshaw and Sachs, she
gained experience in the fields of neuroimaging, neuropsychopharmacology and phenomenology of bipolar illness.
Dr.Yildiz is currently the recipient of several research grants, including those from the Stanley Medical Research Institute. In addition, she is the recipient of the Fellowship Award from the ECNP (2002); and Independent Investigator Award from the Pfizer-U.S.A (2002).
Dr.Yildiz's areas of clinical and research interest include study of pathophysiology of bipolar illness, evaluating therapeutic effects of putative anti-manic agents, and in collaboration with McLean Hospital, Harvard, and NIMH, molecular biology and neuroimaging applications in bipolar disorders.
Dr. Yildiz has authored more than twenty articles in peer-reviewed journals and has been an invited speaker at both national and international scientific and clinical meetings.
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