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Meryem Yucel, PhD

Research Associate Professor

Boston University College of Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

PhD, Bogaziçi University
MS, Bogaziçi University
BS, Bogaziçi University

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	Bio Optical & Acoustic Spectroscopy Lab
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ORCID : 0000-0002-4291-2847

Prior to her position at BU, Meryem Yücel was an Assistant in Biomedical Engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, Radiology. Her primary research interest is to understand how the brain works in health and disease. Her ultimate academic goal is to understand how thoughts affect our reality, particularly our health. Throughout her career, she has gained expertise in mathematical modeling of biological systems and functional brain imaging (fNIRS, fMRI, EEG). Currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at BU, her primary focus is on functional Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy method and translating it to clinical applications and disseminating its use in basic neuroscience research.

BU Research

Advancing a novel portable detection method for cannabis intoxication
02/14/2018 - 08/14/2019 (Subcontract PI)
Brain Solutions Inc NIH NIDA
1R42DA043977-01

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Ortega-Martinez A, Von Lühmann A, Farzam P, Rogers D, Mugler EM, Boas DA, Yücel MA. Multivariate Kalman filter regression of confounding physiological signals for real-time classification of fNIRS data. Neurophotonics. 2022 Apr; 9(2):025003.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 35692628; PMCID: PMC9174890; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.9.2.025003;

Gilmore N, Yücel MA, Li X, Boas DA, Kiran S. Investigating Language and Domain-General Processing in Neurotypicals and Individuals With Aphasia - A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Pilot Study. Front Hum Neurosci. 2021; 15:728151.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 34602997; PMCID: PMC8484538; DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.728151;

Nemani A, Kamat A, Gao Y, Yucel M, Gee D, Cooper C, Schwaitzberg S, Intes X, Dutta A, De S. Erratum: Functional brain connectivity related to surgical skill dexterity in physical and virtual simulation environments (Erratum). Neurophotonics. 2021 Jul; 8(3):039801. PMID: 34337102; PMCID: PMC8315133; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.8.3.039801;

Nemani A, Kamat A, Gao Y, Yucel M, Gee D, Cooper C, Schwaitzberg S, Intes X, Dutta A, De S. Functional brain connectivity related to surgical skill dexterity in physical and virtual simulation environments. Neurophotonics. 2021 Jan; 8(1):015008. PMID: 33681406; PMCID: PMC7927423; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.8.1.015008;

Yücel MA, Lühmann AV, Scholkmann F, Gervain J, Dan I, Ayaz H, Boas D, Cooper RJ, Culver J, Elwell CE, Eggebrecht A, Franceschini MA, Grova C, Homae F, Lesage F, Obrig H, Tachtsidis I, Tak S, Tong Y, Torricelli A, Wabnitz H, Wolf M. Errata: Best practices for fNIRS publications. Neurophotonics. 2021 Jan; 8(1):019802.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 33575435; PMCID: PMC7868645; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.8.1.019802;

von Lühmann A, Zheng Y, Ortega-Martinez A, Kiran S, Somers DC, Cronin-Golomb A, Awad LN, Ellis TD, Boas DA, Yücel MA. Towards Neuroscience of the Everyday World (NEW) using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Curr Opin Biomed Eng. 2021 Jun; 18.View Related Profiles.

Cronin-Golomb, Alice
Boas, David
Awad, Louis
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 33709044; PMCID: PMC7943029; DOI: 10.1016/j.cobme.2021.100272;

Yücel MA, Lühmann AV, Scholkmann F, Gervain J, Dan I, Ayaz H, Boas D, Cooper RJ, Culver J, Elwell CE, Eggebrecht A, Franceschini MA, Grova C, Homae F, Lesage F, Obrig H, Tachtsidis I, Tak S, Tong Y, Torricelli A, Wabnitz H, Wolf M. Best practices for fNIRS publications. Neurophotonics. 2021 Jan; 8(1):012101.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 33442557; PMCID: PMC7793571; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.8.1.012101;

von Lühmann A, Li X, Gilmore N, Boas DA, Yücel MA. Open Access Multimodal fNIRS Resting State Dataset With and Without Synthetic Hemodynamic Responses. Front Neurosci. 2020; 14:579353.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 33132833; PMCID: PMC7550457; DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.579353;

Aktas DA, Akinalp G, Sanli F, Yucel MA, Gambacorta N, Nicolotti O, Karatas OF, Algul O, Burmaoglu S. Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of 3,5-diaryl isoxazole derivatives as potential anticancer agents. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2020 10 01; 30(19):127427. PMID: 32750679; DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.127427;

Li X, Krol MA, Jahani S, Boas DA, Tager-Flusberg H, Yücel MA. Brain correlates of motor complexity during observed and executed actions. Sci Rep. 2020 07 03; 10(1):10965.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Tager-Flusberg, Helen
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 32620887; PMCID: PMC7335074; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67327-5;

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von Lühmann A, Ortega-Martinez A, Boas DA, Yücel MA. Using the General Linear Model to Improve Performance in fNIRS Single Trial Analysis and Classification: A Perspective. Front Hum Neurosci. 2020; 14:30.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 32132909; PMCID: PMC7040364; DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00030;

von Lühmann A, Li X, Müller KR, Boas DA, Yücel MA. Improved physiological noise regression in fNIRS: A multimodal extension of the General Linear Model using temporally embedded Canonical Correlation Analysis. Neuroimage. 2020 03; 208:116472.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 31870944; PMCID: PMC7703677; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116472;

Shah AM, Grotzinger H, Kaczmarzyk JR, Powell LJ, Yücel MA, Gabrieli JDE, Hubbard NA. Fixed and flexible: Dynamic prefrontal activations and working memory capacity relationships vary with memory demand. Cogn Neurosci. 2020 Jul - Oct; 11(4):175-180. PMID: 31782940; PMCID: PMC7255920; DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2019.1694500;

Ortega-Martinez A, Zimmermann B, Cheng X, Li X, Yucel MA, Boas DA. Contribution of speckle noise in near-infrared spectroscopy measurements. J Biomed Opt. 2019 10; 24(10):1-6.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 31668028; PMCID: PMC6820049; DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.24.10.105003;

Gilman JM, Yücel MA, Pachas GN, Potter K, Levar N, Broos H, Manghis EM, Schuster RM, Evins AE. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol intoxication is associated with increased prefrontal activation as assessed with functional near-infrared spectroscopy: A report of a potential biomarker of intoxication. Neuroimage. 2019 08 15; 197:575-585. PMID: 31075393; PMCID: PMC6590705; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.05.012;

Peng K, Yücel MA, Steele SC, Bittner EA, Aasted CM, Hoeft MA, Lee A, George EE, Boas DA, Becerra L, Borsook D. Morphine Attenuates fNIRS Signal Associated With Painful Stimuli in the Medial Frontopolar Cortex (medial BA 10). Front Hum Neurosci. 2018; 12:394.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 30349466; PMCID: PMC6186992; DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00394;

Nemani A, Yücel MA, Kruger U, Gee DW, Cooper C, Schwaitzberg SD, De S, Intes X. Assessing bimanual motor skills with optical neuroimaging. Sci Adv. 2018 10; 4(10):eaat3807. PMID: 30306130; PMCID: PMC6170034; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat3807;

Corp DT, Youssef GJ, Clark RA, Gomes-Osman J, Yücel MA, Oldham SJ, Aldraiwiesh S, Rice J, Pascual-Leone A, Rogers MA. Reduced motor cortex inhibition and a 'cognitive-first' prioritisation strategy for older adults during dual-tasking. Exp Gerontol. 2018 11; 113:95-105. PMID: 30261247; PMCID: PMC6263161; DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2018.09.018;

Jahani S, Setarehdan SK, Boas DA, Yücel MA. Motion artifact detection and correction in functional near-infrared spectroscopy: a new hybrid method based on spline interpolation method and Savitzky-Golay filtering. Neurophotonics. 2018 Jan; 5(1):015003.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 29430471; PMCID: PMC5803523; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.5.1.015003;

Peng K, Yücel MA, Aasted CM, Steele SC, Boas DA, Borsook D, Becerra L. Using prerecorded hemodynamic response functions in detecting prefrontal pain response: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Neurophotonics. 2018 Jan; 5(1):011018.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 29057285; PMCID: PMC5641587; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.5.1.011018;

Yücel MA, Selb JJ, Huppert TJ, Franceschini MA, Boas DA. Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy: Enabling Routine Functional Brain Imaging. Curr Opin Biomed Eng. 2017 Dec; 4:78-86.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 29457144; PMCID: PMC5810962; DOI: 10.1016/j.cobme.2017.09.011;

Jahani S, Fantana AL, Harper D, Ellison JM, Boas DA, Forester BP, Yücel MA. fNIRS can robustly measure brain activity during memory encoding and retrieval in healthy subjects. Sci Rep. 2017 08 25; 7(1):9533.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 28842618; PMCID: PMC5572719; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09868-w;

Walsh B, Tian F, Tourville JA, Yücel MA, Kuczek T, Bostian AJ. Hemodynamics of speech production: An fNIRS investigation of children who stutter. Sci Rep. 2017 06 22; 7(1):4034. PMID: 28642548; PMCID: PMC5481456; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04357-6;

Aasted CM, Yücel MA, Steele SC, Peng K, Boas DA, Becerra L, Borsook D. Frontal Lobe Hemodynamic Responses to Painful Stimulation: A Potential Brain Marker of Nociception. PLoS One. 2016; 11(11):e0165226.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 27806119; PMCID: PMC5091745; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165226;

Yücel MA, Selb J, Aasted CM, Lin PY, Borsook D, Becerra L, Boas DA. Mayer waves reduce the accuracy of estimated hemodynamic response functions in functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Biomed Opt Express. 2016 Aug 01; 7(8):3078-88.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 27570699; PMCID: PMC4986815; DOI: 10.1364/BOE.7.003078;

Kussman BD, Aasted CM, Yücel MA, Steele SC, Alexander ME, Boas DA, Borsook D, Becerra L. Capturing Pain in the Cortex during General Anesthesia: Near Infrared Spectroscopy Measures in Patients Undergoing Catheter Ablation of Arrhythmias. PLoS One. 2016; 11(7):e0158975.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 27415436; PMCID: PMC4944937; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158975;

Becerra L, Aasted CM, Boas DA, George E, Yücel MA, Kussman BD, Kelsey P, Borsook D. Brain measures of nociception using near-infrared spectroscopy in patients undergoing routine screening colonoscopy. Pain. 2016 Apr; 157(4):840-848.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 26645550; PMCID: PMC4794375; DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000446;

Nemani A, Ahn W, Gee D, Intes X, Schwaitzberg S, Yucel M, De S. Objective Surgical Skill Differentiation for Physical and Virtual Surgical Trainers via Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2016; 220:256-61. PMID: 27046588

Yücel MA, Selb J, Aasted CM, Petkov MP, Becerra L, Borsook D, Boas DA. Short separation regression improves statistical significance and better localizes the hemodynamic response obtained by near-infrared spectroscopy for tasks with differing autonomic responses. Neurophotonics. 2015 Jul; 2(3):035005.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 26835480; PMCID: PMC4717232; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.2.3.035005;

Aasted CM, Yücel MA, Cooper RJ, Dubb J, Tsuzuki D, Becerra L, Petkov MP, Borsook D, Dan I, Boas DA. Anatomical guidance for functional near-infrared spectroscopy: AtlasViewer tutorial. Neurophotonics. 2015 Apr; 2(2):020801.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 26157991; PMCID: PMC4478785; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.2.2.020801;

Selb J, Yücel MA, Phillip D, Schytz HW, Iversen HK, Vangel M, Ashina M, Boas DA. Effect of motion artifacts and their correction on near-infrared spectroscopy oscillation data: a study in healthy subjects and stroke patients. J Biomed Opt. 2015 May; 20(5):56011.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 26018790; PMCID: PMC4445402; DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.20.5.056011;

Yücel MA, Aasted CM, Petkov MP, Borsook D, Boas DA, Becerra L. Specificity of hemodynamic brain responses to painful stimuli: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Sci Rep. 2015 Mar 30; 5:9469.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 25820289; PMCID: PMC4377554; DOI: 10.1038/srep09469;

Gagnon L, Sakadžic S, Lesage F, Musacchia JJ, Lefebvre J, Fang Q, Yücel MA, Evans KC, Mandeville ET, Cohen-Adad J, Polimeni JR, Yaseen MA, Lo EH, Greve DN, Buxton RB, Dale AM, Devor A, Boas DA. Quantifying the microvascular origin of BOLD-fMRI from first principles with two-photon microscopy and an oxygen-sensitive nanoprobe. J Neurosci. 2015 Feb 25; 35(8):3663-75.View Related Profiles.

Devor, Anna
Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 25716864; PMCID: PMC4339366; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3555-14.2015;

Sakadžic S, Mandeville ET, Gagnon L, Musacchia JJ, Yaseen MA, Yucel MA, Lefebvre J, Lesage F, Dale AM, Eikermann-Haerter K, Ayata C, Srinivasan VJ, Lo EH, Devor A, Boas DA. Large arteriolar component of oxygen delivery implies a safe margin of oxygen supply to cerebral tissue. Nat Commun. 2014 Dec 08; 5:5734.View Related Profiles.

Devor, Anna
Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 25483924; PMCID: PMC4260810; DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6734;

Yücel MA, Evans KC, Selb J, Huppert TJ, Boas DA, Gagnon L. Validation of the hypercapnic calibrated fMRI method using DOT-fMRI fusion imaging. Neuroimage. 2014 Nov 15; 102 Pt 2:729-35.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 25196509; PMCID: PMC4252607; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.052;

Yücel MA, Selb J, Cooper RJ, Boas DA. TARGETED PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS: A NEW MOTION ARTIFACT CORRECTION APPROACH FOR NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY. J Innov Opt Health Sci. 2014 Mar 01; 7(2).View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 25360181; PMCID: PMC4211632; DOI: 10.1142/S1793545813500661;

Erdogan SB, Yücel MA, Akin A. Analysis of task-evoked systemic interference in fNIRS measurements: insights from fMRI. Neuroimage. 2014 Feb 15; 87:490-504. PMID: 24148922; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.024;

Yucel MA, Gozneli R, Alkumru HN, Kulak-Ozkan Y. Evaluating the additional effects of arthrocentesis on the condylar pathways of temporomandibular joint in patients with internal derangement treated with stabilizing splint. J Craniomaxillofac Surg. 2014 Jul; 42(5):e86-90. PMID: 23932546; DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2013.07.002;

Yücel MA, Selb J, Boas DA, Cash SS, Cooper RJ. Reducing motion artifacts for long-term clinical NIRS monitoring using collodion-fixed prism-based optical fibers. Neuroimage. 2014 Jan 15; 85 Pt 1:192-201.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 23796546; PMCID: PMC3849205; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.06.054;

Gagnon L, Yücel MA, Boas DA, Cooper RJ. Further improvement in reducing superficial contamination in NIRS using double short separation measurements. Neuroimage. 2014 Jan 15; 85 Pt 1:127-35.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 23403181; PMCID: PMC3665655; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.073;

Yücel MA, Huppert TJ, Boas DA, Gagnon L. Calibrating the BOLD signal during a motor task using an extended fusion model incorporating DOT, BOLD and ASL data. Neuroimage. 2012 Jul 16; 61(4):1268-76.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 22546318; PMCID: PMC3376222; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.036;

Gagnon L, Yücel MA, Dehaes M, Cooper RJ, Perdue KL, Selb J, Huppert TJ, Hoge RD, Boas DA. Quantification of the cortical contribution to the NIRS signal over the motor cortex using concurrent NIRS-fMRI measurements. Neuroimage. 2012 Feb 15; 59(4):3933-40.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 22036999; PMCID: PMC3279595; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.054;

Gagnon L, Cooper RJ, Yücel MA, Perdue KL, Greve DN, Boas DA. Short separation channel location impacts the performance of short channel regression in NIRS. Neuroimage. 2012 Feb 01; 59(3):2518-28.View Related Profiles.

Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 21945793; PMCID: PMC3254723; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.095;

Yücel MA, Devor A, Akin A, Boas DA. The Possible Role of CO(2) in Producing A Post-Stimulus CBF and BOLD Undershoot. Front Neuroenergetics. 2009; 1:7.View Related Profiles.

Devor, Anna
Boas, David
Yucel, Meryem

PMID: 20027233; PMCID: PMC2795469; DOI: 10.3389/neuro.14.007.2009;

Yucel MA, Kurnaz IA. An in silico model for HIF-alpha regulation and hypoxia response in tumor cells. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2007 Jun 15; 97(3):588-600. PMID: 17089387; DOI: 10.1002/bit.21247;

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 45 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2021

Bar chart showing 45 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2021

Year	Publications
2007	1
2009	1
2011	2
2012	1
2013	4
2014	3
2015	5
2016	5
2017	4
2018	4
2019	4
2020	4
2021	6
2022	1

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