M.D.Professor Selda Korkmaz Yakar

She graduated from Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Medicine in 2000 and worked as a general practitioner at Sinop 112 Emergency Health Services unit. From 2003 to 2005, she worked as an assistant doctor at Kocaeli University, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Subsequently, she decided to become a neurologist and after passing the specialization exam, she worked as an assistant doctor for five years in the Department of Neurology at Kayseri Erciyes University. In 2010, due to compulsory service, she started working at Şanlıurfa Viranşehir State Hospital, and after completing her compulsory service in 2011, she worked as a researcher in a multicenter study in the Sleep and Epilepsy Unit at Gothenburg University Sahlgrenska Hospital in Sweden. In 2012, she started working as an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Acıbadem University. Her academic studies mainly focus on the clinical applications of electro neurophysiological tests and treatments. Between 2014 and 2016, she worked as a research fellow at the National Institute of Health NIH/NINDS, Human Motor Control Section. During her time there, she attended several courses and seminars in different sub-units of neurology. She actively worked in the Deep Brain Stimulation and Movement Disorders Botulinum Toxin application team.

She returned to Turkey in 2016 after applying for associate professorship and started working at Acıbadem University Acıbadem Bakırköy Hospital. She was awarded the title of Associate Professor of Neurology in 2017 and began working at Aydın University Medical Park Florya Hospital. From 2019 to 2022, she worked in the Department of Neurology at Şişli Kolan Hospital. Currently, she serves as an instructor of Neurology and an Associate Professor in the Department of electro neurophysiology at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Aydın University.

Her areas of interest include all electro neurophysiological studies, including Electroencephalography (EEG), Electromyography (EMG), Sleep (Polysomnography), and Evoked Potentials (VEP, SEP). She also focuses on diagnostic tests and treatment applications for medical and neurological causes that may lead to insomnia and excessive sleepiness, as well as the diagnosis and medical treatment of nerve entrapments that often cause numbness in the hands and feet through electro neurophysiological tests. Additionally, she specializes in the diagnosis of nerve damage and muscle diseases using electromyoneurography and other laboratory tests along with clinical features.

Furthermore, she is knowledgeable in the application of Botulinum Toxin for migraine treatment, as well as differential diagnosis and treatment of headache, fainting, altered consciousness, and epilepsy. She also focuses on the differential diagnosis and preventive treatment of cerebrovascular diseases and the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that cause white matter disease in the brain, especially Multiple Sclerosis and small vessel diseases.