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Professor Yasin Temel (born 2 july 1977 in Sivas, Turkey) is a Neurosurgeon with a strong interest in Neuroscience.

Early life
Yasin Temel did his primary school at the Minister Calsschool (Almelo, The Netherlands) He went to secondary school at the Philips van Horne Scholengemeenschap (Weert, The Netherlands). In 1995, he started with Medicine at Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands) and graduated with designation in 2001.

Career
After receiving his Medical degree, Yasin Temel combined his training in Neurosurgery with his PhD training at Maastricht University Medical Center from 2001 to 2010. In this period he obtained his PhD cum laude from the faculty of Medicine of Maastricht University on 2nd of February 2007. In 2012 he was appointed as Professor of Neurosurgery. He was the youngest professor of Maastricht University. The main clinical activities of Temel are in the field of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery and Skull Base surgery. His research is related to these areas of Neuroscience.

For his scientific work, he has received several personal awards including the Science award of the Dutch brain foundation in 2011 and the JCI’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons special Award in 2011.

Interests
The main scope of Temel’s research is experimental neurosurgery and the clinical applicability of Deep Brain Stimulation in basal ganglia dysfunction due to neurodegeneration. Another specific interest is the etiology and surgical treatment of skull base tumors.

Selected publications
1.	Temel Y, Blokland A, Steinbusch HWM, Visser-Vandewalle V. The functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in the associative and limbic circuits. Progress in Neurobiology, 2005, 76(6):393-413.

2.	Temel Y, Boothman L, Blokland A, Magill P, Steinbusch HWM, Visser-Vandewalle V, Sharp T. Inhibition of 5-HT neurone activity and induction of depressive like behaviour by high frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007, 104(43):17087-17092. IF: 10.2

3.	Temel Y, Visser-Vandewalle V, and Carpenter R. Saccadic latency during electrical stimulation of the human subthalamic nucleus. Current Biology, 2008, 18(10):R412-414.

4.	Temel Y, Tan S, Visser-Vandewalle V, Sharp T. Parkinson’s disease, DBS and suicide: a role for serotonin? Brain, 2009, 132(Pt 10):e126.

5.	Lim LW, Tan SKH, Temel Y. Brain pacemaker to lift depression: mechanisms of electrical brain stimulation in animal models of mood disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 2011, 69(4):e5-6.

6.	Hamani C, Temel Y. Deep Brain Stimulation for psychiatric disorders: What have we learned from animal models? Science Translational Medicine, 2012, 4(142):1-12.

7.	Tan SKH, Hartung H, Schievink S, Sharp T, Temel Y. High-Frequency stimulation of the substantia nigra induces serotonin-dependent depression-like behavior in animal models. Biological Psychiatry, 2013, 15;73(2):e1-3.

8.	Hescham SA, Lim LW, Jahanshahi A, Blokland A, Temel Y. Deep brain stimulation in dementia-related disorders. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 2013, 37(2):2666-2675.

9.	Lim LW, Prickaerts J, Huguet G, Kadar E, Hartung H, Sharp T, Temel Y. Mood improvement by deep brain stimulation: targets and mechanisms. Translational Psychiatry 2015, 31(5):e535.

10.	Temel Y, Jahanshahi A. Treating brain disorders with neuromodulation. Science, 2015, 347(6269): 1418-1419.

11.	Plantinga BR, Temel Y, Duchin Y, Uludag K, Roebroeck A, Kuijf M, Jahanshahi A, ter Haar Romenij B, Vitek J, Harel N. Individualized parcellation of the subthalamic nucleus in patients with Parkinson’s disease with 7T MRI. Neuroimage (in press).