Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aykut Kural, MD

Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aykut Kural, MD is a neurologist at Acibadem Altunizade Hospital in İstanbul. He works in the Neurology department and sees patients within the hospital’s Headache Treatment, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Aging, Stroke and Preventive Treatments, and Treatment of Movement Disorders units. He has more than 19 years in medicine and joined Acıbadem Healthcare Services in 2025.

Dr. Kural graduated from Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine in 2008, following an exchange internship at Vrije University in Brussels, Belgium (2007–2008). He completed his neurology residency at Ankara University between 2009 and 2014, with an observership at the Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center in the United States in 2013. From 2014 to 2022 he worked as a research assistant at the Aarhus University Department of Neurology in Aarhus, Denmark, and between 2018 and 2021 he completed a doctoral program at the Aarhus University Department of Clinical Neurophysiology. In 2020 he was a research assistant at the Yale University Department of Neurology. He served as an associate professor at Mardin Training and Research Hospital from 2022 to 2024 and was a visiting faculty member at McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute in Montreal, Canada, in 2024. He is a member of the Turkish Neurology Association, the Turkish Clinical Neurophysiology EEG-EMG Association, the Danish Neurology Association, the Danish Clinical Neurophysiology Association, the Danish Epilepsy Association, and the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE). His published research includes clinical validation of criteria for interictal epileptiform discharges in EEG, artificial intelligence-supported EEG interpretation, and serum neurofilament light chain as a possible biomarker for polyneuropathy in type 2 diabetes.

Clinical focus

Dr. Kural’s clinical work covers a broad range of neurological conditions. In headache care he offers migraine treatment and nerve blocks. He assesses and manages epilepsy, drawing on his clinical neurophysiology background in EEG reading, and cares for patients with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.

His practice also includes movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, stroke prevention and preventive treatments, sleep disorders, and peripheral neuropathy with neuropathic pain. The choice of any diagnostic test or treatment depends on the individual patient’s history, examination findings and existing results.

How Dr. Kural works with international patients

Dr. Kural consults in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who speak other languages. The Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior medical reports and imaging, arranges appointments and organises the hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and symptoms, a review of existing imaging and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the available options. Video consultation is available for international patients who wish to discuss their situation before travelling or to follow up afterwards.