Üsküdar Üniversitesi Faculty of Medicine Head of Neurology Department and Faculty of Health Sciences Speech and Language Therapy Lecturer Prof. Dr. Oğuz Tanrıdağ’s book titled “”, published by Üsküdar Üniversitesi Publications, serves as a resource for Speech and Language students.
The work, which serves as a textbook, parallels the specialization in medicine by examining the stages of human life in an unrelated manner and maintains this approach regarding diseases.
Regardless of how professionally justified it may be, treating facts and diseases related to the child's brain as topics of child neurology up to ages 10-11, and then adult neurology thereafter, is not logically consistent with the theory of development in biology. This is because the development of the human brain and the emergence of its diseases are generally a continuous process, linked from one age to another. Due to this disconnect, difficulties are encountered in the education of both medical fields and areas like speech-language therapy.
In this book, although he received adult neurology training, he felt compelled to write such a book, recognizing that the brain's development from the womb onward is linked to adolescence and adulthood in many aspects, thereby bringing the continuous and uninterrupted nature of brain biology and its diseases to the forefront.
“I summarized the development of the child's brain”
Tanrıdağ stated that there was no such resource at the university, saying, 'I wanted to create a resource for the students of the Speech and Language Therapy department. Although I am an adult neurologist, through my research and studies, I observed that the adult brain is closely related to brain and mental development in children from birth. Thus, I summarized the development of the child's brain starting from the womb.'
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