Sinan Canan was born in Ankara in 1972. Graduated from Hacettepe University Biology Department in 1995. He's done his MSc in Histology and Embryology department and PhD in Medical Phsyiology Department of Medical School of Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun. He became an Associate Professor in Medical Physiology in 2010. He studied and worked in different instituitons, including Bartholin Institute Neurological Research Lab (Copenhagen, Denmark, 1998), Baskent University (Ankara, 2004-2009) and Yildirim Beyazit University (Ankara, 2010-2016). Dr. Canan generally preferred to work in multidisciplinary areas, including behavioral neuroscience, electrophysiology, chaos theory, complexity, fractal geometry and fractal behavior, evolutionary neuropsychology, language and learning. He also founded the first public neuroscience education center, [n]Beyin ([n]Brain) in 2013 and has participated hundreds of public lectures, TV programs and educational activities across Turkey since then. He published several books and papers for the general public, including “Kimsenin Bilemeyeceği Şeyler” (The Things That No One Can Know, book, Tuti kitap, 2015), Değişen Beynim (My Changing Brain, book, Tuti kitap, 2015) and [n]Beyin Dergisi (periodic popular science magazine, since January, 2016) in Turkish language. Currently he is a full time professor in Uskudar University Psychology Department and also working as the head of scientific board of [n]Beyin.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9864-1767
Short CV
Education Status & Academic Titles
Supervised Graduate Theses
- Narsistik Kişilik Özelliğinin Sosyal Görünüş Kaygısı Ve Benlik Saygısı İle Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelenmesi, 2019.
Academic Activities > Publications
(ISI Web of Science Core Collection *) Toplam: 26Postnatal growth in the rat pineal gland: A stereological study
anatomia histologia embryologia (2012)
A Brief Introduction to Stereology and Sampling Strategies: Basic Concepts of Stereology
Neuroquantology (2012)
Academic Activities > Publications
(Other Scientific Publications) Toplam: 10Problem Çözme Sürecinde Beyin Dalgalarının İncelenmesi
Erzincan Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi (2014)
Yapay Sinir Ağlarına Genel Bakış
https://www.turkiyeklinikleri.com/article/tr-yapay-sinir-aglarina-genel-bakis-47277.html (2007)
Yeni stereolojik yöntemlerin olası hata kaynakları ve çözüm yolları
Türkiye Klinikleri Tıp bilimleri Dergisi (2004)
Academic Activities > Book - Book Chapter
- İFA: İnsanın Fabrika Ayarları, 2019.
- Davranışın Sinirsel Temelleri, 2019.
- Gelecekte(n) Beyin Öyküleri, 2017.
- Beynin Sırları, 2016.
- Kimsenin Bilemeyeceği Şeyler, 2015.
- Değişen Be(y)nim, 2015.
- Fraktal Düşünceler, 2008.
Education and Training Activities
- Evolutionary Psychology, (Undergraduate Degree / 2019-2020 Güz)
- Evrimsel Psikoloji, (Undergraduate Degree / 2019-2020 Güz)
- Evrimsel Psikoloji, (Undergraduate Degree / 2019-2020 Güz)
- Nöropazarlamaya Giriş, (Master / 2019-2020 Güz)
- Temel Nörobilim, (Master / 2019-2020 Güz)
- Neuroscience, (Undergraduate Degree / 2018-2019 Bahar)
- Sinirbilim, (Undergraduate Degree / 2018-2019 Bahar)
- Sinirbilim, (Undergraduate Degree / 2018-2019 Bahar)
- Temel Nörobilim, (Master / 2018-2019 Bahar)
- Davranışsal Nörobilim, (Master / 2018-2019 Bahar)
* ISI Web of Science Core Collection
- Science Citation Index
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Emerging Sources Citation Index