Katherine Turk, MD
Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
Dept of Neurology

MD, Tufts University School of Medicine




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 in 2018 . She sees patients at the Boston VA Memory Disorders clinic and is also a junior principal investigator at the Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience lab (CTCN). She is also the medical director of the VA Boston Polytrauma clinic and the BMC Neurology residency site director for VA Boston.

VA Boston Healthcare System



2013 Alpha Omega Alpha: Inductee
2013-2015 Neurology Residency Curriculum Committee: Member
2009-2011 Clinical Honors in Psychiatry
2008-2011 Joseph Collins Foundation Scholarship
2007-2009 Preclinical Honors in Neuroscience and Cell and Tissue Biology


Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Using Event Related Potentials
07/01/2020 - 12/31/2020 (Subcontract PI)
Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. Alzheimer's Assoc


Personnel Agreement for the Research Services of Alaa Abdul El-Shaar
01/01/2017 - 09/30/2017 (PI)
VA Boston Healthcare System




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  1. Malone C, Turk KW, Palumbo R, Budson AE. The Effectiveness of Item-Specific Encoding and Conservative Responding to Reduce False Memories in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer's Disease Dementia. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2020 Aug 10; 1-12.View Related Profiles. PMID: 32772946
     
  2. Turk KW, Palumbo R, Deason RG, Marin A, Elshaar A, Gosselin E, O'Connor MK, Tripodis Y, Budson AE. False Memories: The Other Side of Forgetting. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2020 07; 26(6):545-556.View Related Profiles. PMID: 32106906
     
  3. Turk KW, Budson AE. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2019 Feb; 25(1):187-207.View Related Profiles. PMID: 30707193
     
  4. Gallagher LG, Ilango S, Wundes A, Stobbe GA, Turk KW, Franklin GM, Linet MS, Freedman DM, Alexander BH, Checkoway H. Lifetime exposure to ultraviolet radiation and the risk of multiple sclerosis in the US radiologic technologists cohort study. Mult Scler. 2019 07; 25(8):1162-1169.View Related Profiles. PMID: 29932357
     
  5. Turk KW, Elshaar AA, Deason RG, Heyworth NC, Nagle C, Frustace B, Flannery S, Zumwalt A, Budson AE. Late Positive Component Event-related Potential Amplitude Predicts Long-term Classroom-based Learning. J Cogn Neurosci. 2018 09; 30(9):1323-1329.View Related Profiles. PMID: 29791297
     
  6. Turk KW, Flanagan ME, Josephson S, Keene CD, Jayadev S, Bird TD. Psychosis in Spinocerebellar Ataxias: a Case Series and Study of Tyrosine Hydroxylase in Substantia Nigra. Cerebellum. 2018 04; 17(2):143-151. PMID: 28887803
     
  7. Turk KW, Budson AE. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Review. 2018.
  8. Turk KW, Budson AE. The Brigham Intensive Review of Internal Medicine. Dementia. 2016.
  9. K. Turk, J.B. Leverenz. Federal Practitioner. . Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease: Biomarkers, neuroimaging, and genetics will play a vital role in helping to understand the origins of Parkinson disease and treating cognitive impairment in patients with the disease. 2014; 31(S5):202-203.
  10. Obermeier B, Lovato L, Mentele R, Brück W, Forne I, Imhof A, Lottspeich F, Turk KW, Willis SN, Wekerle H, Hohlfeld R, Hafler DA, O'Connor KC, Dornmair K. Related B cell clones that populate the CSF and CNS of patients with multiple sclerosis produce CSF immunoglobulin. J Neuroimmunol. 2011 Apr; 233(1-2):245-8. PMID: 21353315; PMCID: PMC3090654
     
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