Nihal Tastekin

Biography:

Dr. Nihal Taştekin graduated from Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine in 2013. After working as a doctor in an emergency service for a while, she completed her psychiatry residency at Istanbul Erenkoy Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases Training and Research Hospital and became a specialist in psychiatry in 2020. As a psychiatry residency thesis; she studied on the clinical and cognitive effects of computer-assisted cognitive remediation method in individuals with opioid use disorder. Between October 2020 and June 2022, she worked as a specialist at Bolu Izzet Baysal Mental Health and Diseases Hospital, where she followed up the patients of inpatient and outpatient clinics in the Addiction Treatment Centre. She works especially in the field of addiction, neurocognitive treatments, psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Since June 2022, she has been working as a doctor in the Addiction Treatment Centre of Neuropsychiatry Istanbul Brain Hospital.