title: [Nevzat Eşref Bengin MD and the beginning of the education of modern psychiatry in Afghanistan].
abstract: In this paper, the life of Turkish physician Nevzat Eşref Bengin, his studies in Afghanistan, the status of medicine and especially the status of psychiatry in Afghanistan in 1930s, introduction of first Persian textbook of neurology and textbook of psychiatry which were published in Afghanistan by Bengin, are presented.
authors.affiliation: Bakirköy Ruh ve Sinir Hastaliklari Hastanesi.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Erkoç
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hatemi
mesh_terms: D000346:Afghanistan; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014421:Turkey