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Katherine Turk, MD

Assistant Professor

Boston University School of Medicine

Dept of Neurology

MD, Tufts University School of Medicine

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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

BU Research

Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Using Event Related Potentials
10/12/2020 - 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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Yr	Title	Project-Sub Proj	Pubs

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Vives-Rodriguez A, Turk KW, Vassey EA, Singhal T, Cho CH, Budson AE. Reversible Amnestic Cognitive Impairment in a Patient With Brain Sagging Syndrome. Neurol Clin Pract. 2021 Aug; 11(4):e551-e554.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Vassey, Elizabeth
Turk, Katherine

PMID: 34484956; PMCID: PMC8382434; DOI: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000860;

Tao Q, Alvin Ang TF, Akhter-Khan SC, Itchapurapu IS, Killiany R, Zhang X, Budson AE, Turk KW, Goldstein L, Mez J, Alosco ML, Qiu WQ. Impact of C-Reactive Protein on Cognition and Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers in Homozygous Apolipoprotein E ?4 Carriers. Neurology. 2021 Jul 15.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Itchapurapu, Indira Swetha
Mez, Jesse
Turk, Katherine
Goldstein, Lee
Alosco, Michael
Killiany, Ronald

PMID: 34266923

Turk KW, Marin A, Schiloski KA, Vives-Rodriguez AL, Uppal P, Suh C, Dwyer B, Palumbo R, Budson AE. Head Injury Exposure in Veterans Presenting to Memory Disorders Clinic: An Observational Study of Clinical Characteristics and Relationship of Event-Related Potentials and Imaging Markers. Front Neurol. 2021; 12:626767.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine
Palumbo, Rocco

PMID: 34194379; PMCID: PMC8236514; DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2021.626767;

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. 2021 03; 27(3):227-238.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine
Palumbo, Rocco

PMID: 32772946; PMCID: PMC7873137; DOI: 10.1017/S1355617720000715;

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.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine
O'Connor, Maureen
Palumbo, Rocco
Tripodis, Yorghos

PMID: 32106906; PMCID: PMC7319895; DOI: 10.1017/S1355617720000016;

Turk KW, Budson AE. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2019 Feb; 25(1):187-207.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine

PMID: 30707193

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.

Turk, Katherine
Gallagher, Lisa

PMID: 29932357

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.

Budson, Andrew
Zumwalt, Ann
Turk, Katherine
Heyworth, Nadine

PMID: 29791297; PMCID: PMC6534151; DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01285;

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; PMCID: PMC5843512; DOI: 10.1007/s12311-017-0882-5;

Turk KW, Budson AE. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Review. 2018.

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Turk KW, Budson AE. The Brigham Intensive Review of Internal Medicine. Dementia. 2016.
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.

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; DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2011.01.010;

Ratai EM, Pilkenton SJ, Greco JB, Lentz MR, Bombardier JP, Turk KW, He J, Joo CG, Lee V, Westmoreland S, Halpern E, Lackner AA, González RG. In vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy reveals region specific metabolic responses to SIV infection in the macaque brain. BMC Neurosci. 2009 Jun 22; 10:63. PMID: 19545432; PMCID: PMC2711091; DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-63;

Ratai EM, Hancu I, Blezek DJ, Turk KW, Halpern E, González RG. Automatic repositioning of MRSI voxels in longitudinal studies: impact on reproducibility of metabolite concentration measurements. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2008 May; 27(5):1188-93. PMID: 18425834; PMCID: PMC2679165; DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21365;

Rapp DE, Turk KW, Bales GT, Cook SP. Botulinum toxin type a inhibits calcitonin gene-related peptide release from isolated rat bladder. J Urol. 2006 Mar; 175(3 Pt 1):1138-42. PMID: 16469640

N. Rønsted, E. Yektaei-Karin, K. Turk, J. M. Clarkson, M. W. Chase. Species-level phylogenetics of large genera: prospects of studying co-evolution and polyploidy (T. Hodkinson & J. Parnell, eds.). Reconstructing the tree of life: taxonomy and systematics of species rich taxa. CRC Press. 2005.

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 17 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2018

Bar chart showing 17 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2018

Year	Publications
2005	1
2006	1
2008	1
2009	1
2011	1
2014	1
2016	1
2018	4
2019	1
2020	2
2021	3

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