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 9/1/2025

    Alosco ML, Morrison M, Au R, Steinberg EG, Mwicigi J, Ly M, Altaras C, Lenio S, Abdennadher M, O'Connor MK, Tripodis Y, Palmisano J, Dixon D, Martin B, Schneider G, Groh JR, Ellison A, Sheppard D, Farris CW, Nowinski C, Cantu RC, Turk KW, Farrer L, Jun G, Goldstein LE, Qiu WQ, Stein TD, Budson AE, McKee AC, Mez J. Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Clinical Core: Infrastructure to facilitate research on post-traumatic Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Sep; 21(9):e70654. PMID: 40923312.

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  • Published 7/14/2025

    Bindra GS, Asad S, Shanaa J, Lui F, Budson AE, Turk KW, Cherry JD. Neuroinflammatory mechanisms may help identify candidate biomarkers in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Free Neuropathol. 2025; 6:15. PMID: 40666430.

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  • Published 3/28/2025

    Labonte J, Sugarman MA, Pettway E, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Ashton NJ, Karikari TK, Aparicio HJ, Frank B, Tripodis Y, Martin B, Palmisano JN, Steinberg EG, Simkin I, Farrer LA, Jun GR, Turk KW, Budson AE, O'Connor MK, Au R, Goldstein LE, Stern RA, Stein TD, McKee AC, Qiu WQ, Mez J, Banks SJ, Alosco ML. Sex differences on tau, astrocytic, and neurodegenerative plasma biomarkers. J Alzheimers Dis. 2025 May; 105(2):443-452. PMID: 40151917.

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  • Published 11/12/2024

    Vives-Rodriguez AL, Marin A, Schiloski KA, Hajos GP, Di Crosta A, Ceccato I, La Malva P, Anderson DC, Lahdo N, Donnelly K, Dong J, Kasha S, Rooney C, Dayaw J, Marton G, Wack A, Hanger V, DeCaro R, Di Domenico A, Turk KW, Palumbo R, Budson AE. Impact of remote social interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic on the cognitive and psychological status of older adults with and without cognitive impairment: A randomized controlled study. PLoS One. 2024; 19(11):e0311792. PMID: 39531433.

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  • Published 10/1/2024

    O'Connor MK, Frank B, DeCaro R, Vives-Rodriguez A, Hurley L, Turk KW, Budson AE. Suspected Pseudobulbar Affect in Neurodegenerative Disease. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2024 Oct; 39(10):e70002. PMID: 39434195.

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Education

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

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