Katherine Turk, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
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.
Other Positions
- VA Boston Healthcare System
Education
- Tufts University School of Medicine, MD
- University of Chicago, BA
Publications
- Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/16/2024
Turk KW, Knobel MD, Nothern A, Friedman G, Noah H, Campbell B, Anderson DC, Charidimou A, Mills A, Coronel V, Pierre N, Reynolds BV, Wagner C, Varga LM, Roefaro J, Triantafylidis L, Budson AE. An Interprofessional Team for Disease-Modifying Therapy in Alzheimer Disease Implementation. Neurol Clin Pract. 2024 Dec; 14(6):e200346. PMID: 39185104.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/4/2024
Campbell BP, Turk KW, Budson AE. The major challenges with pharmacologic management of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Expert Rev Neurother. 2024 Nov; 24(11):1035-1039. PMID: 39099111.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/19/2024
Smith AM, Marin A, DeCaro RE, Feinn R, Wack A, Hughes GI, Rivard N, Umashankar A, Turk KW, Budson AE. Algorithmic Spaced Retrieval Enhances Long-Term Memory in Alzheimer Disease: Case-Control Pilot Study. JMIR Form Res. 2024 Jul 19; 8:e51943. PMID: 39028554.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2024
Marin A, Turk KW, Schiloski K, Vives-Rodriguez A, Suh C, Uppal P, Dwyer B, Palumbo R, Budson AE. The Use of Event Related Potentials to Predict Amyloid PET Status Among Patients from a Memory Disorders Clinic. J Alzheimers Dis. 2024; 100(4):1195-1208. PMID: 38995774.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/30/2023
Montoliu-Gaya L, Alosco ML, Yhang E, Tripodis Y, Sconzo D, Ally M, Grötschel L, Ashton NJ, Lantero-Rodriguez J, Sauer M, Gomes B, Nilsson J, Brinkmalm G, Sugarman MA, Aparicio HJ, Martin B, Palmisano JN, Steinberg EG, Simkin I, Turk KW, Budson AE, Au R, Farrer L, Jun GR, Kowall NW, Stern RA, Goldstein LE, Qiu WQ, Mez J, Huber BR, Alvarez VE, McKee AC, Zetterberg H, Gobom J, Stein TD, Blennow K. Optimal blood tau species for the detection of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology: an immunoprecipitation mass spectrometry and autopsy study. Acta Neuropathol. 2023 Dec 30; 147(1):5. PMID: 38159140.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/25/2023
Ally M, Sugarman MA, 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, Kowall NW, Killiany R, Stern RA, Stein TD, McKee AC, Qiu WQ, Mez J, Alosco ML. Cross-sectional and longitudinal evaluation of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein to detect and predict clinical syndromes of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2023; 15(4):e12492. PMID: 37885919.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/25/2023
Anderson DC, DeCaro RE, Chadalavada M, Marin A, Di Crosta A, Ceccato I, Malva P, Mammarella N, Di Domenico A, Turk KW, Palumbo R, Budson AE. Characteristics of Home and Neighborhood Built Environments During COVID-19 for Older Adults in the United States and Italy. J Aging Environ. 2023 Oct 25; 2023:1-37. PMID: 39055175.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/12/2023
Friedman G, Turk KW, Budson AE. The Current of Consciousness: Neural Correlates and Clinical Aspects. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2023 Jul; 23(7):345-352. PMID: 37303019.
Read at: PubMed
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