Hande Turker
Hande Turker is a neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist. She has dealt with headache, neuropathic pain, neuromuscular diseases, dystonia, and electromyography and evoked potentials for nearly 30 years. She is the author of many publications, including several book chapters on evoked potentials and electromyography. Her main interests other than clinical neurophysiology are neuromuscular diseases with a special stress on neuropathies and neuropathic pain, headache, and botulinum toxin injections in movement disorders. She has been working at Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey, since 2003. She is a professor of neurology and a lecturer, and teaches headache, neuropathic pain, neuromuscular diseases, and electromyography and evoked potentials at the same university, where she founded the “Evoked Potential Lab” and directed the EMG and EP Unit between 2003 and 2010. She is also the author of IntechOpen book chapters, including “Middle and long latency auditory evoked potentials and their usage in fibromyalgia and schizophrenia,” “Neurological complications of hypothyroidism,” and “Surface electromyography in sports and exercise.” She is the editor of a number of IntechOpen books, including Electrodiagnosis in New Frontiers of Clinical Research and Current Perspectives on Lesser-Known Aspects of Headache. She has published more than 80 manuscripts, mostly original studies, speaks several foreign languages other than English, and is happily married.