He graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine in 1984, receiving the title of "Medical Doctor". Afterwards, he went to America for his psychiatry residency, where he completed his Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, and Neurology residency training with ECFMG certification at the Institute of Living/U.Conn., Yale, University of Texas, and San Antonio University Hospitals, and completed an EEG and Psychopharmacology Research Fellowship at New York Medical College. He successfully completed the Harvard Medical School Global Clinical Scholar Research Training Program. He continues his work with Harvard. He submitted a project to Harvard Medical School, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medical School, to conduct a placebo-controlled neurofeedback study on Alzheimer's disease. His application for associate professorship was sent to the jury appointed by the Council of Higher Education for review of his work.