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Dr. Tarik Ballaaj

Associate Professor, Psychology Program
Department of Social Sciences, Qatar University - Qatar
 

Tarek Bellaj holds a Ph.D. in Neuropsychology from the University of Tunis after a Fulbright Scholarship in the Psychophysiology Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University and a training scholarship in the Neuropsychology Department at Liège University, Belgium. He taught Neuropsychology at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Tunis for 16 years. He was a Visiting Professor at Angers University in France for 8 years. Currently, he is an Associate Professor, Socio-neurology Sciences, Psychology Program, University of Qatar for 3 years. He supervised several doctorate and master degree theses on the mental and behavioral changes resulting from neurological diseases in children, adolescents, and the elderly.

In the applied domain, Dr. Bellaj worked as a Clinical Psychology Specialist, in Al-Razi Psychiatric Hospital for 2 years. And he worked as a Clinical Neuropsychology Specialist in the National Neurology Center, Tunisia for 2 years. Then, he worked as Clinical Neuropsychology Consultant in Charles Nicole Hospital, Tunisia for 6 years.

His research interests are in cultural neuropsychology, and clinical neuropsychology. His work incorporates multiple facets of these topics as applied to memory, executive functions, the mind theory, and emotional behavioral disorders as manifested in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders in the Islamic Arabic communities and culture.

He published chapters and articles on neuropsychology and culture, characteristics of neuropsychological assessment in Arab communities. He has translated and developed many neuropsychological tests to detect dementia and assess associated different mental functions and emotional and behavioral changes.

He was the President of the Tunisian Society of Psychiatry from 2007 to 2015.