is a Professor of Neurology and Child Neurology in Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine. 

She is a graduate of Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University. In 1997, she started to work as a neurology specialist at Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Department of Neurology, Division of Child Neurology. After completing her subspeciality training in Child Neurology, she became an associate professor in 2006 and professor in 2012. 

Professor Yapıcı is at present the head of the division. In 2018, Doctor Zuhal Yapıcı established the 'Translational Neurodevelopmental Medicine PhD Program' to be carried out under the Department of Neurology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. In the same year, she established the 'Unit of Tuberous Sclerosis' in Istanbul University, and she was appointed as unit coordinator. She has been a member of the "Journal of European Paediatric Neurology" editorial board, starting from 2022. Her main academic areas of interest are childhood movement disorders, diseases with NBIA, and neurocutaneous syndromes. Doctor Zuhal YAPICI has more than 120 international articles. On March 16, 2023, Professor YAPICI established the "Turkey NBIA Study Group" with the support of the Turkish Parkinson Disease Association. She has been conducting clinical research and doctoral theses on NBIA for the last 11 years.