Smartphone Addiction and Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder in Adolescents: Chicken or the Egg

"Smartphone Addiction and Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder in Adolescents: Chicken or the Egg." Psychiatry, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2

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Tayfun Kara

Tayfun Kara is an associate professor at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University in Turkey, where he has served since 2018, and is currently the head of the department. Assoc. Prof. Kara completed his medical training at the Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, graduating as a medical doctor in 2006. Between 2009 and 2014, he continued his studies at the Istanbul University Medical Faculty Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and started working as a consultant in 2014. Between 2014 and 2018, he worked as a consultant at the Istanbul Bakırköy Training and Research Hospital. He has previously published scientific studies on autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Assoc. Prof. Kara has worked extensively in the field of consultation-liaison psychiatry. He is currently continuing his scientific research, as well as teaching medical students.