Samet Kose, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
samet.kose@vanderbilt.edu
http://www.vandypsychimaging.com
Dr. Samet Kose joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2009. His prior research focused on the brain basis of psychiatric disorders, particularly anxiety, mood disorders, and postpartum depression. Dr. Kose’s current research at Vanderbilt focuses on associative learning/ relational memory and functional connectivity/ resting state brain activity in patients with schizophrenia and first-episode psychosis. Recipient of Health Emotions Research Institute Scholars Award (Top 15 scientist), NARSAD Young Investigator Award, and APA’s Research Colloquium Junior Investigator Award. His “Cummings: A Profile of a Poet” book has received favorable reviews by the literary critics.
Education
Premed/Medical Program; Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
M.D.; Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Postgraduate Training
Resident in Adult Psychiatry, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychiatric Neuroimaging, MUSC, Center for Advanced Imaging Research & Brain Stimulation Lab, Charleston, SC
Areas of Clinical Expertise
Anxiety disorders, treatment resistant depression, postpartum depression.
Research interests
Neural correlates of social bonding, attachment, empathy, alexithymia, deception, and personality correlates of psychiatric disorders. Neuroimaging in psychiatric disorders, treatment resistant depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, brain stimulation therapies in psychiatric disorders (VNS, TMS, DBS).
Representative publications
1. Kose S, Sayar K, Kalelioglu U, Aydin N, Feryal Celikel, Gulec H, Ak I, Kirpinar I, Cloninger CR. (2009). Normative data and factorial structure of the Turkish version of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). Comprehensive Psychiatry, Jul-Aug; 50 (4): 361-368.
2. Short BE, Kose S, Qiwen M, Borckardt JJ, Newberg A, George MS, Kozel AF. (2007). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Meditation. Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 1-7.
3. Swain JE, Lorberbaum JP, Kose S, Strathearn L. (2007). Brain basis of early parent-infant interactions: psychology, physiology, and in vivo functional neuroimaging studies. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, Mar-Apr; 48 (3-4): 262-87.
4. Najib A, Lorberbaum JP, Kose S, Bohning DE, George MS. (2004). Regional brain activity in women grieving a romantic relationship break-up. Am J Psychiatry, 161: 2245–2256.
5. Kose S, George MS. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigations in Mood Disorders. In: Soares JC, ed, Brain Imaging in Affective Disorders, New York: Marcel Decker, Inc, 2003: 119-157.
