Katherine Turk, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Turk is a board-certified Neurologist specialized in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology. She earned her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and then completed her Internship and Neurology residency at the University of Washington in Seattle. She completed her fellowship training in Behavioral Neurology at Boston University/VA Boston. She sees patients at the Boston VA Memory Disorders clinic and is also a principal investigator and co-director of the Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience lab (CTCN) at VA Boston. She serves as the co-Leader of the Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement core of the Boston University Alzheimer's disease Research Center. She has received research funding from the Alzheimer's Association, the Doris Duke Foundation and the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Turk's research interests include behavioral interventions for autobiographical memory loss in clinical populations including veterans with Alzheimer's disease and Traumatic Brain Injury as well the investigation of event-related potentials as clinical diagnostic biomarkers.

Publications

  • Published 7/1/2026

    Turk KW, Marin A, Karaca M, Price AM, Palumbo R, Budson AE. Reaction time as a performance validity measure in older adults with and without early-stage Alzheimer's disease. Appl Neuropsychol Adult. 2026 Jul 01; 1-12. PMID: 42381490.

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  • Published 4/1/2026

    Groh JR, Miner AE, Alshikho MJ, Farris C, Cui A, Pettway E, Labonte J, Mosaheb S, Tripodis Y, Adler CH, Balcer LJ, Bernick C, Cantu RC, Coleman MJ, Dodick DW, Ashton NJ, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Peskind ER, Nowinski C, Ly M, Altaras C, Lenio S, Rabinovici GD, Asken B, Rosen H, Cobigo Y, Blusztajn JK, Budson AE, Turk K, Qiu WQ, Goldstein L, Martin B, Palmisano JN, Dixon D, Schneider G, Steinberg EG, Su Y, Protas H, Pasternak O, Koerte I, Bouix S, Cummings JL, Reiman EM, Shenton ME, Stern RA, McKee AC, Stein TD, Brickman AM, Mez J, Alosco ML. Imaging the later-life white matter pathologies of repetitive head impacts: A novel pattern revealed through T2 FLAIR MRI. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 Apr; 22(4):e71351. PMID: 42002804.

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  • Published 1/21/2026

    Hagan B, Buss SS, Fried PJ, Shafi MM, Turk KW, Xie KY, Frank B, Passera B, Ozdemir RA, Budson AE. Evaluating Alzheimer's disease with the TMS-EEG perturbation complexity index. Neurosci Conscious. 2026; 2026(1):niaf062. PMID: 41574278.

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  • Published 12/30/2025

    DeCaro RE, Marin A, Waskow E, Vives-Rodriguez A, Di Crosta A, La Malva P, Turk KW, Palumbo R, Budson AE. Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment Can Correct COVID-19 Health-Related Misconceptions. Health Sci Rep. 2026 Jan; 9(1):e71519. PMID: 41480626.

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  • Published 10/18/2025

    Berenbaum JG, Morrison B, Hagan B, Xie KY, Turk KW, Budson AE. Frontal Disorders and Consciousness: A Review. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2025 Oct 18; 25(1):70. PMID: 41108446.

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Education

  • Tufts University School of Medicine, MD
  • University of Chicago, BA

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