Murat Emre

Prof. Murat Emre was born in 1956, in Eregli, Turkey. After studying medicine at the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, which he graduated from in 1980, he was trained in neuroscience and clinical neurology at the University of Zürich 1981–1985. He then worked in the fields of neurorehabilitation and clinical research in Switzerland until 1996. During this time, he had two sabbaticals: he was trained in movement disorders with Prof. David Marsden at the Queen Square National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London (UK) and in behavioral neurology with Prof. Marsel Mesulam at the Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School (US). In 1996 he was assigned as Professor of Neurology at the İstanbul Faculty of Medicine (Turkey) where he started the Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders Unit, which he chaired until 2011. He acted as Chairman of the Neurology Department in 2002–2003. In 2011 he retired from his position as full professor and was assigned as Adjunct Professor for Research. He was founding President of the Brain Research Society, the Alzheimer Society of Turkey and the Alzheimer Foundation and a past president of the Parkinson Society of Turkey. His areas of interest include movement disorders, in particular Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, especially cognitive aspects of the disease, as well as Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.