Dilara Yüksel

Postdoctoral Fellow SRI International, Human Sleep Research Program

Dilara Yüksel, Ph.D., joined SRI International in 2018 as a post-doctoral fellow, principally working on a study about Sleep and Cardiovascular Health in clinical and non-clinical adolescent populations. She is currently focused on investigating the influence of pre-sleep arousal on neurophysiological processes during sleep in adolescents with and without insomnia disorder. Yüksel has a background in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. She was working on multicenter projects in psychiatric inpatients to identify neurobiological correlates of mental disorders as well as genetic and brain functional/structural biomarkers of psychiatric [especially affective] disorders.

Yüksel obtained a MSc in Psychology from University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany in 2013 and a PhD in Medical Sciences (Clinical Neuroscience) from Philipps University Marburg, Germany in 2018.

View Yüksel’s publications on Research Gate.

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Performance of Fitbit Charge 3 Against Polysomnography in Measuring Sleep in Adolescent Boys and Girls (4/1/2021) - We evaluated the performance of Fitbit Charge 3™ (FC3), a multi-sensor commercial sleep-tracker, for measuring sleep in adolescents against gold-standard…

Physiological Responses to Acute Psychosocial Stress in Women with Menopausal Insomnia (2/26/2021) - Introduction: Insomnia disorder is a common sleep disorder and frequently emerges in the context of menopause, being associated with menopause-specific…

How the COVID‐19 Pandemic Has Changed Our Lives: A Study of Psychological Correlates Across 59 Countries (10/20/2020) - Objective: This study examined the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and subsequent social restrictions or quarantines on the mental health…