Prof. Dr. Erol Başar
Contact Information
Address: Istanbul Kültür University, Brain Dynamics, Cognition and Complex Systems Research Center, Ataköy Campus, Bakırköy 34156- Istanbul
Phone: 0090 (212) 498 4392
Fax: 0090 (212) 498 4546
E-mail:
Homepage: http://www.iku.edu.tr/EN/brain-dynamics-research-center/
Education
1968-1970 Post-Graduate Fellowship Programme in Research Center, Rockland State Hospital, by U.S.A New York Department of Mental Health fellowship.
1965–1968 Hanover University and Hamburg University common program
Ph.D., Physiology and Biophysics
Doctorate Thesis: Autoregulation of The Circulatory System.
1965 Munich and Hamburg Universities
M.Sc., Physics
Master Thesis: Analysis of Elementary Particles by High Energy Methods.
1959–1964 Munich and Hamburg Universities
B.Sc., Physics
1950- 1958 French-Turkish-Lyce’e Galatasaray , Istanbul
Academic and Industrial Experience
2006- Present The director of the Brain Dynamics, Cognition and Complex Systems Research Center at the Istanbul Kültür University.
2000- 2006 The director of the Brain Dynamics Multidisciplinary Research Center at the Dokuz Eylul University.
Chairman, the department of Biophysics at Dokuz Eylul University’s Medical School.
1993- 2002 Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK) President of Brain Dynamics Research Unit and Director of Brain Dynamics Multidisciplinary Research Group
1980-2000 Head of the Neurophysiology Research Group at the Physiology Institute of the Medical University in Lübeck
1980 Full-Professor
1972-1980 Director of Biophysics Institute and the coordinator of Biophysics Graduate Program
1973 Associate Professor
1971 Hacettepe University, Medical Faculty, Institute of Biophysics, founding director.
1970 -1971 Hacettepe University, Institute of Biology, Associated Professor
1970- 1980 Hacettepe University (H. U.), Ankara.
1968-1970 Appointed a postdoctoral fellow and became Research Assistant at Nathan Kline Brain Research Institute of New York Rockland State Hospital
1965- 1968 Hamburg University Medical Faculty, research assistant in Institute of Physiology
1964-1965 Hamburg University Faculty of Science, assistant.
Guest Professorships
1984 University of California in San Diego (ABD), Neuroscience Department. Supported by DFG.
1978-1979 Appointed the Richard Merton Professor of the German Research Council at the University Kiel
1978 Physiology Institute of Ghent University (Belgium)
Reviewer with the Following Journals
Neuroscience Letters,
Theoretical Biology,
Brain Research,
Brain Research Cognition,
Science Bulletin of Brain Research,
EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology,
Int. Journal of Psychophysiology,
Int. J. Neuroscience,
Biological Psychiatry,
IEEE-Biomedical Engineering,
Biological Cybernetics,
European Journal of Physiology,
Medical and Biological Engineering Computing,
Methods in Neuroscience,
Science,
Neuroscience
Prizes and Awards
2007 SCOPUS Research awards
1973 TÜBITAK Science Award of 50th Republic Anniversary
1970 TÜBİTAK Encouragement Award
Employments
Following a postdoctoral fellowship of New York Department of Mental Hygiene on Brain research at Nathan Kline Brain Research Institute between 1968 and 1970 he was nominated as Asst. Professor at Hacettepe University in Ankara. In 1971 he was elected as director of The Institute of Biophysics and nominated as Assoc. Professor in 1973.
During this period (1970-1978) at Hacettepe, the PI published several papers on brain research and circulation research with the core philosophy on the importance of oscillatory dynamics in physiology. The monograph EEG-Brain Dynamics (1980, Elsevier) was a result of this research period.
In 1978 PI was invited to University Kiel as Richard Merton visiting Professor nominated by the German research Council DFG.
In 1980 he took a position at the Medical University Lübeck as Professor of Physiology for a teaching and research during a period of twenty years.
Between 2000-2006 PI has been Professor of Biophysics and Director of Multidisciplinary Brain Dynamics Research Center of the Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir. He has published a monograph on “Memory and Brain Dynamics (2004), he organized a multidisciplinary and international workshop and a The World Congress of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (2006).
Currently PI is professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Director of the Brain dynamics, Cognition and Complex Systems at Istanbul Kultur University.
Invited Speeches by the Industrial Organizations/ Institutions
Invited lectures in international congresses or university seminars are as follows: (city names only shown, not in alphabetic series)
Amsterdam, Ghent, Kopenhag (2), Helsinki, München, Magdeburg, Freiburg, Rostock, Berlin (2), Düsseldorf, Zürich (2), New York (2), San Diego (4), Loma Linda , Berkeley (1), Rochester (2), Stony Brook, N.Y., Hamburg (2), Bielefeld, Hamburg-Jesteburg, Schloss-Elmau (3), Havana, Kiel (2), Hannover (2), Marburg, Stuttgart, Houston (3), Austin, Istanbul (5), Tucson-Arizona, Santa Barbara, Vancouver, Taormina (2), Londra (4), Washington (2), Kiev, Rouen, Lyon, Titisee (2) , Freiburg (2), Frankfurt, Baltimore (2), Bonn, Dresden (2), Giessen, Graz (2), Wien, Salzburg, Lizbon (2), Madrid, Bielefeld (2), Bremen (4), Berlin (2), Zürich (2), Mainz, Münster, Travemünde, Lübeck, Rostock, Würzburg, München , Kiel (2), Leipzig, Santa Fee, Dortmund (2), Los Alamos, Sydney, Potsdam, Jena, Colonia, Guadalajara (2).
Organization of International Conferences, Workshops and World Congress
1)Synergetics of the Brain, Bavaria,1983 (President)
2)Sensory and Cognitive Processing of The Brain, Berlin, 1985 (President)
3)Brain Dynamics: Progress and Perspectives, Berlin, 1987 (President)
4)Induced Rhythms in the Brain Workshop, New York,1990 (President)
5) Functional correlates of Alpha Activity of the Brain, Lubeck,1994 (President)
6) Brain Dynamics and Cognition Workshop, İzmir, 2005 (President)
7) Olympics of the Brain, International Organization of Psychophysiology World Congress İstanbul, 2006 (President)
8) Brain-Mind in a Probabilistic Hyperspace, İstanbul, 2007 (President)
9)10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, 2008, Bodrum,(Honorary President)
10)Brain Oscillations in Cognitive Impairment and Neurotransmitters, 2011, İstanbul (President)
Graduate Students
Ph.D. Students
1. Çiğdem Özesmi (1972) Beynin işitme hattında sistem teorisi (Hacettepe University)
2. Pekcan Ungan Systems Theoretical Analysis of Potentials Evoked in the Cat Auditory Cortex (1974) (Hacettepe University)
3. Canan Eroğlu Düz Kaslarda Spontane Kasılma Öz Şekillerinin Zaman ve Frekans Alanlarında Analizi (1974) (Hacettepe University)
4. Rezzan (Durusan) Utkuçal, Serebellar Korteks Elektriksel Aktivitesinin Sistem Teorisi Metotlarıyla Analizi (1976) (Hacettepe University)
5. Atila Gönder, Systems Analysis of the Relation Between Brain’s Spontaneous and Evoked Activities (1977) (Hacettepe University)
6. Necla (Demir) Öztürk, Düz Kasların Gerilme Cevaplarının Sistem Teorisi Metodları ile Analizi (1977) (Hacettepe University)
7. Aşkın Tümer, Değişik Hayvanlardaki Lenf Düğümlerine Ait Spontane Aktivitelerin Sistem Teorisi Yöntemleriyle Bir Komperatif Analizi (1978) (Hacettepe University)
8. Sirel Karakaş, High Frequency Brain Potentials Evoked in Humans by Optic Stimulation (1978) (Hacettepe University)
9. Nihal Tümer, Kobay Viseral Organlarındaki Aktif Düz Kasların Dinamiğinin Bir Analizi (1980) (Hacettepe University)
10. Joachim Röschke, Eine analyse der nichtlinearen EEG-Dynamik, 1986, Lübeck University
11. Klaus Sturbeck Verleichende alayse evozierter potantiale von invertabraten und vertebraten 1988, (Lübeck University)
12. Wolfgang Duckeck, Frequenzanayse der mechanischen spontanaktitat der isolierten vena portae des meerschweinchens: effekte von calcium-und barium-ionen, verapmil und nifedipine, 1990, (Lübeck University)
13. Atsuko Schütt, Untersuchungen zu der rolle biogener monoamine in der gehirnfunktion an einem invertebraten-modell, 1995, (Lübeck University)
14. Ralph Parnefjord, Untersuchungen zur dynamic der evozierten potantiale an der hörschwelle, 1996, (Lübeck University)
15. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga,Quantative analysis of EEG signals: Time-frequency methods and chaos theory, 1998, (Lübeck University)
16. Özlem Yılmaz Fizyoterapide Kullanılmak Üzere Somatosensoriyel Uyaranların Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Elektrofizyolojik Bir Metotun Geliştirilmesi (Dokuz Eylül University)
17. Bahar Güntekin Yüz İfadesini Beyin Elektrofizyolojik Olarak Nasil Algilar?: Beyin Dinamiği Yöntemleri İle Analiz, 2006 (Dokuz Eylül University)
18. Adile Öniz Beyinde delta, teta ve alfa osilasyon yanıtlarının ışığında öğrenme süreçleri, 2006 (Dokuz Eylül University)
19. Görsev Yener Alzheimer Hastalığı'nda Olaya İlişkin Osilasyonlar, 2008 (Dokuz Eylül University)
20. Ayşegül Özerdem Bipolar bozukluk tanılı hastalarda valproat monoterapisi öncesi ve sonrası görsel uyaranlara ilişkin potansiyellerin incelenmesi, 2008 (Dokuz Eylül University)
Projects and Funding
The PI has been the leader of an international research network and has performed 18 international projects with multidisciplinary scientists from Buenos Aires to Perth. The Network grounded at the Medical University Lübeck in 1980s and extended in 1995 in Turkey, was supported by grants of recognized German (DFG, BMBF, VW), European (BIRCH II), American (McDonnell) and Turkish (TÜBITAK) granting agencies.
Visitors
Several scientists have visited laboratories of PI and most of them started cooperation: T.H. Bullock (San Diego), H. Stampfer (Perth), H. Saermark (Copenhagen), A. von Stein (Vienna), O. Rosso,. R. Quian Quiroga) (Buenos Aires), Liu Shii (Shanghay), T. Demiralp, A. Ademoğlu, (Istanbul), S. Makeig, (San Diego) (V. Kolev, J. Yordanova (Sofia), I.. Maltzeva (Moscow), Geissler (Leipzig), E. Nalçacı (Ankara) Parnefjord (Göteborg), Atsuko Schütt (Kyoto).
Publications
Books
1) Basar, E., 1976. Biophysical and Physiological Systems Analysis, Addison Wesley, Reading.
2) Basar, E., 1980. EEG-Brain Dynamics - Relation between EEG and Brain Evoked Potentials. Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam.
3) Başar, E., Weiss, C., 1981. Vasculature and Circulation. Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam.
4) Başar, E., Flohr, H., Haken, H., Mandell, A.J. (Eds.), 1983. Synergetics of the Brain Springer, Berlin- Heidelberg- New York.
5) Başar, E. (Ed.), 1988. Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing by the Brain.Springer, Berlin- Heidelberg- New York.
6) Başar, E., Bullock, T.H. (Eds.), 1989. Brain Dynamics. Progress and Perspectives. Springer, Berlin- Heidelberg- New York.
7) Başar, E. (Ed.), 1990. Chaos in Brain Function.Springer, Berlin- Heidelberg- New York.
8) Başar, E., Bullock, T. H. (Eds.), 1992. Induced Rhythms in the Brain. Birkhäuser, Boston.
9) Başar, E., Hari, R., Lopes Da Silva, F.H., Schürmann, M. (Eds.), 1997. Brain Alpha Activity - New Aspects and Functional Correlates. International Journal of Psychophysiology 26 (1997) - Special Issue.
10) Başar, E., 1998. Brain Function and Oscillations I. Brain Oscillations. Principles and Approaches Springer, Berlin- Heidelberg- New York.
11) Başar, E., 1999. Brain Function and Oscillations II. Integrative Brain Function. Neurophysiology and Cognitive Processes Springer, Berlin- Heidelberg- New York.
12) Başar, E., Başar-Eroğlu, C., Karakaş, S., Schürmann, M. (Eds.), 2001. Event Related Oscillations in Perception andMemory. Special Issue of International Journal of Neurosciences (Elsevier Publishers, Volume 39, Numbers 2-3)
13) Başar, E., 2004. Memory and Brain Dynamics: Oscillations Integrating Attention, Perception, Learning and Memory. CRC Press
14) Karakaş, S., Başar, E. (Eds.), 2006. Models and Theories of Brain Function with Special Emphasis on Cognitive Processing. International Journal of Psychophysiology 60(2).
15) Başar, E. (Ed.), 2007. Brain Oscillations: Cutting Edges. International Journal of Psychophysiology, Special Issue
16) Başar, E. (Ed.), 2008. Brain Oscillations in Cognition and Cognitive Disorders. Brain Research, Special Issue
17) Başar, E., 2011. Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations, Springer.
18) Başar, E., Başar-Eroğlu, C., Özerdem, A., Rossini, P.M., Yener, G.G., 2012, in press. Application of Brain Oscillations in Neuropsychiatric Diseases. Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol. 62.
Articles
1) Erol Başar, Bahar Güntekin, Atagün, I., Turp, B., Tülay, E., Ozerdem, A., 2012. Brain's alpha activity is highly reduced in euthymic bipolar disorder patients. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 6(1), 11-20.
2) Yener, G.G., Güntekin, B., Orken, D.N., Tülay, E., Forta, H., Basar, E., 2012. Auditory delta event-related oscillatory responses are decreased in Alzheimer's disease. Behav. Neurol. 25(1), 3-11.
3) Ozerdem, A., Güntekin, B., Atagün, I., Turp, B., Başar, E., 2011. Reduced long distance gamma (28–48 Hz) coherence in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders 132, 325–332.
4) Başar, E., 2010. Why the Concept of "Quantum Brain" was not discovered in 1940s. NeuroQuantology, 8, 322-336.
5) Yener, G., Başar, E., 2010. Sensory evoked and event related oscillations in Alzheimer's disease: a short review. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 4, 263-274.
6) Erol Başar, Bahar Güntekin, Elif Tülay, Görsev G. Yener, 2010. Evoked and Event Related Coherence of Alzheimer Patients Manifest Differentiation of Sensory-Cognitive Networks. Brain Research, 1357, 79-90.
7) Güntekin, B., Basar, E., 2010. Event-related beta oscillations are affected by emotional eliciting stimuli. Neuroscience Letters 483 (2010) 173–178.
8) Ozerdem, A., Güntekin, B., Saatçi, E., Tunca, Z., Basar, E., 2010. Disturbance in long distance gamma coherence in bipolar disorder. Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry. 34(6), 861-865
9) Güntekin, B., Basar, E., 2010. A new interpretation of P300 responses upon analysis of coherences. Cognitive Neurodynamics 4, 107-118
10) Başar E., Güntekin B., 2009. Bergson’s Intuition and Memory in View of NeuroQuantology. NeuroQuantology, 7(4), 602-608.
11) Başar E., Güntekin B., 2009. An Essay on Darwin’s Theory and Bergson’s Creative Evolution in the Era of NeuroQuantology. NeuroQuantology, 7(4), 609-622.
12) Görsev G. Yener, Bahar Güntekin, Elif Tülay, Erol Başar, 2009. A comparative analysis of sensory visual evoked oscillations with visual cognitive event related oscillations in Alzheimer’s disease. Neurosci Lett., 462, 193-7.
13) Başar E. 2009. S-Matrix and Feynman Space-Time Diagrams to Quantum Brain Approach An Extended Proposal. NeuroQuantology, 7, 30-45 .
14) Oniz A, Başar E. Prolongation of alpha oscillations in auditory oddball paradigm. Int J Psychophysiol. Int J Psychophysiol. 2009 Mar; 71(3):235-41.
15) Başar E., Güntekin B. Darwin's evolution theory, brain oscillations, and complex brain function in a new "Cartesian view". Int J Psychophysiol. 2009 Jan; 71(1):2-8.
16) Güntekin B, Başar E. Facial affect manifested by multiple oscillations. Int J Psychophysiol. 2009 Jan; 71(1):31-6
17) Başar E. Oscillations in "brain-body-mind"-A holistic view including the autonomous system. Brain Res. 2008, 1235: 2-11.
18) Başar E, Güntekin B. A review of brain oscillations in cognitive disorders and the role of neurotransmitters. Brain Res. 2008, 1235:172-193.
19) Başar E, Schmiedt-Fehr C, Oniz A, Başar-Eroğlu C. Brain oscillations evoked by the face of a loved person. Brain Res. 2008 Jun 12;1214:105-15.
20) Güntekin B, Saatçi E, Yener G. Decrease of evoked delta, theta and alpha coherences in Alzheimer patients during a visual oddball paradigm. Neurosci Lett. 2008 Sep 7;424(2):94-9.
21) Yener G, Güntekin B, Başar E. Event-related delta oscillatory responses of Alzheimer patients. Eur J Neurol. 2008 Jun;15(6):540-7.
22) Ozerdem A, Güntekin B, Tunca Z, Başar E. Brain oscillatory responses in patients with bipolar disorder manic episode before and after valproate treatment.Brain Res. 2008 Jul 2.
23) Ozerdem A, Kocaaslan S, Tunca Z, Başar E. Event related oscillations in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. Neurosci Lett. 2008 Oct 17;444(1):5-10.
24) B. Güntekin, E. Başar, Gender differences influence brain's beta oscillatory responses in recognition of facial expressions. Neurosci Lett. 2007 Sep 7; 424(2):94-9. Epub 2007 Aug
25) B. Güntekin, E. Başar, Brain oscillations are highly influenced by gender differences. Int J Psychophysiol. 2007 Sep; 65(3):294-9. Epub 2007 Mar 30.