Nilufer Yalcin, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Biography
Dr. Yalcin worked as a post-doctoral research fellow for three years at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard Medical School with focus on cortical spreading depolarization and transcranial magnetic stimulation on stroke recovery. She completed her residency training in neurology at Tufts Medical School in Boston, MA and her fellowship training in neurocritical care at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Her main research and clinical interest is the role of cortical spreading depolarization in SAH, TBI and acute stroke patients.
Publications
- Published on 1/13/2025
Li M, Yalcin N, Weiss DL, Hill LAT, Shah M, Garcia KA, Vale Diaz FL, Rueda Carrillo LG, Smith H, Moore-Hill DT. NORSE secondary to anti-GAD65 antibody-positive encephalitis treated with novel adjunctive rapid titration VNS protocol. Epilepsia Open. 2025 Jan 13. PMID: 39801479.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/24/2024
Rueda-Carrillo L, Li M, Garcia KA, Shah M, Yalcin N. Pupillary changes in pentobarbital coma mimicking a neurocritical care emergency. Acta Neurol Belg. 2025 Feb; 125(1):261-264. PMID: 39448461.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/4/2023
Oza E, Shah M, Yalcin N, Garcia KA. Unilateral eye opening as spinal motor reflex in brain death. Acta Neurol Belg. 2023 Aug; 123(4):1637-1640. PMID: 36598747.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/28/2022
Rueda Carrillo L, Garcia KA, Yalcin N, Shah M. Ketamine and Its Emergence in the Field of Neurology. Cureus. 2022 Jul; 14(7):e27389. PMID: 36046286.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/6/2020
Negro A, Seidel JL, Houben T, Yu ES, Rosen I, Arreguin AJ, Yalcin N, Shorser-Gentile L, Pearlman L, Sadhegian H, Vetrivelan R, Chamberlin NL, Ayata C, Martelletti P, Moskowitz MA, Eikermann-Haerter K. Acute sleep deprivation enhances susceptibility to the migraine substrate cortical spreading depolarization. J Headache Pain. 2020 Jul 06; 21(1):86. PMID: 32631251.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/13/2018
Yalcin N, Chen SP, Yu ES, Liu TT, Yen JC, Atalay YB, Qin T, Celik F, van den Maagdenberg AM, Moskowitz MA, Ayata C, Eikermann-Haerter K. Caffeine does not affect susceptibility to cortical spreading depolarization in mice. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2019 Apr; 39(4):740-750. PMID: 29651899.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/6/2015
Eikermann-Haerter K, Arbel-Ornath M, Yalcin N, Yu ES, Kuchibhotla KV, Yuzawa I, Hudry E, Willard CR, Climov M, Keles F, Belcher AM, Sengul B, Negro A, Rosen IA, Arreguin A, Ferrari MD, van den Maagdenberg AM, Bacskai BJ, Ayata C. Abnormal synaptic Ca(2+) homeostasis and morphology in cortical neurons of familial hemiplegic migraine type 1 mutant mice. Ann Neurol. 2015 Aug; 78(2):193-210. PMID: 26032020.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/25/2014
Eikermann-Haerter K, Lee JH, Yalcin N, Yu ES, Daneshmand A, Wei Y, Zheng Y, Can A, Sengul B, Ferrari MD, van den Maagdenberg AM, Ayata C. Migraine prophylaxis, ischemic depolarizations, and stroke outcomes in mice. Stroke. 2015 Jan; 46(1):229-36. PMID: 25424478.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/28/2014
Pascoal-Faria P, Yalcin N, Fregni F. Neural markers of neuropathic pain associated with maladaptive plasticity in spinal cord injury. Pain Pract. 2015 Apr; 15(4):371-7. PMID: 25169195.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2014
Lee JH, Zheng Y, von Bornstadt D, Wei Y, Balcioglu A, Daneshmand A, Yalcin N, Yu E, Herisson F, Atalay YB, Kim MH, Ahn YJ, Balkaya M, Sweetnam P, Schueller O, Poyurovsky MV, Kim HH, Lo EH, Furie KL, Ayata C. Selective ROCK2 Inhibition In Focal Cerebral Ischemia. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2014 Jan 01; 1(1):2-14. PMID: 24466563.
Read at: PubMed