BarisAltenMDPhD(He/Him)

Neurology Resident

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Mass General Brigham Neurology Residency Program
55 Fruit Street, WACC 721
Boston, MA 02114
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Dr. Baris Alten is a Neurology Resident based in Boston, MA, currently training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. He completed his residency in Neurology from 2021 to 2025 through a program affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, and an internship in Internal Medicine at Salem Hospital. He graduated from Hacettepe University in 2018 and served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine from 2018 to 2021. Dr. Alten has contributed to multiple academic publications, focusing on synaptic mechanisms and neurotransmission, which have been cited numerous times in various scientific journals.

Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Neurology, 2021 - 2025
Salem HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 2021 - 2022
Hacettepe University FOMClass of 2018

PubMed

The postsynaptic density in excitatory synapses is composed of clustered, heterogeneous nanoblocks.
Rong Sun, James P Allen, Zhuqing Mao, Liana Wilson, Mariam Haider
The Journal of Cell Biology. 2025-06-02
Cerebrospinal Fluid Beta-Amyloid Concentration and Clinical and Radiographic Manifestations of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy.
Baris Alten, Elif Gokcal, Andrew Warren, Susanne J van Veluw, Mariel Kozberg
Journal of the American Heart Association. 2025-03-04
Can chemical-induced aseptic meningitis cause intractable headache following intrathecal pump placement?
Baris Alten, Frederic Reuther, Courtney Gilbert, David Hao
Interventional Pain Medicine. 2025-03-01

Reviewer Spotlight: Dr. Baris AltenJuly 7th, 2022
Spontaneous release of neurotransmitters in the brain identified as a culprit of developmental disorders in infants and childrenJuly 7th, 2022
Vanderbilt researchers discover new spontaneous signaling pathway in the brainJuly 7th, 2022
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