Katherine Turk, MD
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Neurology

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



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




EEG Microstates for Predicting Cognitive Decline in Early Alzheimer’s Disease
01/01/2026 - 12/31/2026 (PI)
Karen Toffler Charitable Trust


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
5P30AG072978-05

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




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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
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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  1. Hagan B, Buss SS, Fried PJ, Shafi MM, Turk KW, Xie KY, Frank B, Passera B, Ozdemir RA, Budson AE. Evaluating Alzheimer's disease with the TMS-EEG perturbation complexity index. Neurosci Conscious. 2026; 2026(1):niaf062.View Related Profiles. PMID: 41574278; PMCID: PMC12821375; DOI: 10.1093/nc/niaf062;
     
  2. DeCaro RE, Marin A, Waskow E, Vives-Rodriguez A, Di Crosta A, La Malva P, Turk KW, Palumbo R, Budson AE. Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment Can Correct COVID-19 Health-Related Misconceptions. Health Sci Rep. 2026 Jan; 9(1):e71519.View Related Profiles. PMID: 41480626; PMCID: PMC12754260; DOI: 10.1002/hsr2.71519;
     
  3. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40923312; PMCID: PMC12418077; DOI: 10.1002/alz.70654;
     
  4. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40666430; PMCID: PMC12261625; DOI: 10.17879/freeneuropathology-2025-6382;
     
  5. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40151917; PMCID: PMC12450407; DOI: 10.1177/13872877251329468;
     
  6. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39531433; PMCID: PMC11556722; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311792;
     
  7. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39434195; PMCID: PMC11811881; DOI: 10.1002/gps.70002;
     
  8. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39185104; PMCID: PMC11340999; DOI: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000200346;
     
  9. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39099111
     
  10. 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. PMID: 39028554; PMCID: PMC11297374; DOI: 10.2196/51943;
     
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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
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