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Katherine Turk, MD

Assistant Professor

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Neurology

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

Websites

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	ResearchGate
	BUSM
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ORCID : 0000-0002-6833-5494

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.

VA Boston Healthcare System

BU Research
NIH RePORTER Research

Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
08/15/2021 - 06/30/2026 (Key Person)
PI: Ann C. McKee, MD
NIH/National Institute on Aging
5P30AG072978-03

Event-related potentials in the clinical management of Alzheimer's disease and Traumatic Brain Injury
06/16/2022 - 12/31/2024 (Multi-PI)
PI: Katherine Turk, MD
VoxNeuro, Inc.

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

Title

Yr	Title	Project-Sub Proj
2024	Contributions of mild traumatic brain injury to neurodegeneration due to chronic traumatic encephalopathy and alzheimer's disease	5IK2CX002065-04
2023	Contributions of mild traumatic brain injury to neurodegeneration due to chronic traumatic encephalopathy and alzheimer's disease	5IK2CX002065-03
2022	Contributions of mild traumatic brain injury to neurodegeneration due to chronic traumatic encephalopathy and alzheimer's disease	5IK2CX002065-02
2020	Contributions of mild traumatic brain injury to neurodegeneration due to chronic traumatic encephalopathy and alzheimer's disease	1IK2CX002065-01A1

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Campbell BP, Turk KW, Budson AE. The major challenges with pharmacologic management of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Expert Rev Neurother. 2024 Aug 04; 1-5.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine

PMID: 39099111

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.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine

PMID: 39028554; PMCID: PMC11297374; DOI: 10.2196/51943;

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.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Dwyer, Brigid
Turk, Katherine

PMID: 38995774; PMCID: PMC11380249; DOI: 10.3233/JAD-231038;

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.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
McKee, Ann
Huber, Bertrand
Sconzo, Daniel
Steinberg, Eric
Jun, Gyungah
Aparicio, Hugo
Mez, Jesse
Turk, Katherine
Goldstein, Lee
Farrer, Lindsay
Alosco, Michael
Kowall, Neil
Au, Rhoda
Stern, Robert
Stein, Thor
Alvarez, Victor
Tripodis, Yorghos

PMID: 38159140; PMCID: PMC10757700; DOI: 10.1007/s00401-023-02660-3;

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.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
McKee, Ann
Frank, Brandon
Steinberg, Eric
Jun, Gyungah
Aparicio, Hugo
Mez, Jesse
Turk, Katherine
Goldstein, Lee
Farrer, Lindsay
O'Connor, Maureen
Alosco, Michael
Kowall, Neil
Au, Rhoda
Stern, Robert
Stein, Thor
Tripodis, Yorghos

PMID: 37885919; PMCID: PMC10599277; DOI: 10.1002/dad2.12492;

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.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine

PMID: 39055175; PMCID: PMC11271746; DOI: 10.1080/26892618.2023.2269552;

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.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine

PMID: 37303019; PMCID: PMC10287796; DOI: 10.1007/s11910-023-01276-0;

Morrison MS, Aparicio HJ, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Ashton NJ, Karikari TK, Tripodis Y, Martin B, Palmisano JN, Sugarman MA, Frank B, Steinberg EG, Turk KW, Budson AE, Au R, Goldstein LE, Jun GR, Kowall NW, Killiany R, Qiu WQ, Stern RA, Mez J, McKee AC, Stein TD, Alosco ML. Ante-mortem plasma phosphorylated tau (181) predicts Alzheimer's disease neuropathology and regional tau at autopsy. Brain. 2022 Oct 21; 145(10):3546-3557.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
McKee, Ann
Frank, Brandon
Steinberg, Eric
Jun, Gyungah
Aparicio, Hugo
Mez, Jesse
Turk, Katherine
Goldstein, Lee
Morrison, Madeline
Alosco, Michael
Kowall, Neil
Au, Rhoda
Stern, Robert
Killiany, Ronald
Stein, Thor
Qiu, Wendy
Tripodis, Yorghos

PMID: 35554506; PMCID: PMC10233293; DOI: 10.1093/brain/awac175;

Marin A, DeCaro R, Schiloski K, Elshaar A, Dwyer B, Vives-Rodriguez A, Palumbo R, Turk K, Budson A. Home-Based Electronic Cognitive Therapy in Patients With Alzheimer Disease: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Form Res. 2022 Sep 12; 6(9):e34450.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Dwyer, Brigid
Turk, Katherine

PMID: 36094804; PMCID: PMC9513684; DOI: 10.2196/34450;

Price AM, Palumbo R, Marin A, Uppal P, Suh C, Budson AE, Turk KW. Distinguishing Between Genuine and Feigned Dementia Using Event-related Potentials. Cogn Behav Neurol. 2022 Sep 01; 35(3):188-197.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine
Palumbo, Rocco

PMID: 35830243; PMCID: PMC9444996; DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0000000000000311;

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Vives-Rodriguez AL, Schiloski KA, Marin A, Wang R, Hajos GP, Powsner R, DeCaro R, Budson AE, Turk KW. Impact of amyloid PET in the clinical care of veterans in a tertiary memory disorders clinic. Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2022; 8(1):e12320.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine

PMID: 35992216; PMCID: PMC9382691; DOI: 10.1002/trc2.12320;

Turk KW, Vives-Rodriguez A, Schiloski KA, Marin A, Wang R, Singh P, Hajos GP, Powsner R, DeCaro R, Budson AE. Amyloid PET ordering practices in a memory disorders clinic. Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2022; 8(1):e12333.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Turk, Katherine

PMID: 35992217; PMCID: PMC9382692; DOI: 10.1002/trc2.12333;

Frank B, Ally M, Tripodis Y, Puzo C, Labriolo C, Hurley L, Martin B, Palmisano J, Chan L, Steinberg E, Turk K, Budson A, O'Connor M, Au R, Qiu WQ, Goldstein L, Kukull W, Kowall N, Killiany R, Stern R, Stein T, McKee A, Mez J, Alosco M. Trajectories of Cognitive Decline in Brain Donors With Autopsy-Confirmed Alzheimer Disease and Cerebrovascular Disease. Neurology. 2022 Jun 14; 98(24):e2454-e2464.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
McKee, Ann
Frank, Brandon
Steinberg, Eric
Mez, Jesse
Turk, Katherine
Goldstein, Lee
O'Connor, Maureen
Alosco, Michael
Kowall, Neil
Au, Rhoda
Stern, Robert
Killiany, Ronald
Stein, Thor
Tripodis, Yorghos

PMID: 35444054; PMCID: PMC9231841; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000200304;

Turk KW, Geada A, Alvarez VE, Xia W, Cherry JD, Nicks R, Meng G, Daley S, Tripodis Y, Huber BR, Budson AE, Dwyer B, Kowall NW, Cantu RC, Goldstein LE, Katz DI, Stern RA, Alosco ML, Mez J, McKee AC, Stein TD. A comparison between tau and amyloid-ß cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer disease. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2022 02 09; 14(1):28.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
McKee, Ann
Huber, Bertrand
Dwyer, Brigid
Katz, Douglas
Mez, Jesse
Cherry, Jonathan
Turk, Katherine
Goldstein, Lee
Alosco, Michael
Kowall, Neil
Stern, Robert
Stein, Thor
Alvarez, Victor
Xia, Weiming
Tripodis, Yorghos

PMID: 35139894; PMCID: PMC8830027; DOI: 10.1186/s13195-022-00976-y;

Frank B, Ally M, Brekke B, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Sugarman MA, Ashton NJ, Karikari TK, Tripodis Y, Martin B, Palmisano JN, Steinberg EG, Simkina I, Turk KW, Budson AE, O'Connor MK, Au R, Goldstein LE, Jun GR, Kowall NW, Stein TD, McKee AC, Killiany R, Qiu WQ, Stern RA, Mez J, Alosco ML. Plasma p-tau181 shows stronger network association to Alzheimer's disease dementia than neurofilament light and total tau. Alzheimers Dement. 2022 Aug; 18(8):1523-1536.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
McKee, Ann
Frank, Brandon
Steinberg, Eric
Jun, Gyungah
Mez, Jesse
Turk, Katherine
Goldstein, Lee
O'Connor, Maureen
Alosco, Michael
Kowall, Neil
Au, Rhoda
Stern, Robert
Killiany, Ronald
Stein, Thor
Tripodis, Yorghos

PMID: 34854549; PMCID: PMC9160800; DOI: 10.1002/alz.12508;

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 APOE ?4 Carriers. Neurology. 2021 Sep 20; 97(12):e1243-e1252.View Related Profiles.

Budson, Andrew
Itchapurapu, Indira Swetha
Mez, Jesse
Turk, Katherine
Goldstein, Lee
Alosco, Michael
Tao, Qiushan
Killiany, Ronald
Qiu, Wendy
Zhang, Xiaoling

PMID: 34266923; PMCID: PMC8480484; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012512;

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;

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
Dwyer, Brigid
Turk, Katherine
Palumbo, Rocco

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

Chait A, Wang S, Goodspeed L, Gomes D, Turk KE, Wietecha T, Tang J, Storey C, O'Brien KD, Rubinow KB, Tang C, Vaisar T, Gharib SA, Lusis AJ, Den Hartigh LJ. Sexually Dimorphic Relationships Among Saa3 (Serum Amyloid A3), Inflammation, and Cholesterol Metabolism Modulate Atherosclerosis in Mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021 06; 41(6):e299-e313. PMID: 33761762; PMCID: PMC8159856; DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.121.316066;

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.
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.

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