Natasha Marrus

Additional Titles & Roles

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• Attending, School Consultation Clinic at Washington University Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic
• Attending, Autism Clinical Center, Washington University
• Associate Professor of Radiology

Education & Training

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• Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2012
• Residency: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2010
• M.D.: Washington University in St Louis, 2007
• Ph.D.: Washington University in St Louis, 2007
• B.A.: University of Southern California, 1999
• B.S.: University of Southern California, 1999

Major Awards

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• Travel Award, International Meeting for Autism Research, 2016
• Missouri Families for Effective Treatment of Autism, Executive Board, 2015
• Diversity Award, International Meeting for Autism Research, 2014
• Eli Robins Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychiatry, in Teaching, and in Research, 2012
• Chief Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, 2012

Areas of Clinical Interest

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Child and adolescent psychiatry, autism, pervasive developmental disorder, developmental disability, early childhood development, school consultation

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Research Interests

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Autism, development of language and social cognition, social motivation, emotion regulation in early childhood, biomarkers of child psychiatric disorders, neuroimaging

Recent Publications

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• Phenotype Representation and Analysis via Discriminative Atypicality (PRADA) to Capture the Structural Heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorder

  Onemli, E., Mahmood, A., Azrak, O., Garic, D., Swanson, M. R., Grzadzinski, R., Mata, K., Shen, M. D., Girault, J. B., St. John, T., Pandey, J., Zwaigenbaum, L., Estes, A. M., Shen, A. M., Dager, S. R., Schultz, R. T., Botteron, K. N., Evans, A. C., Elison, J. T. & Yacoub, E. & 8 others, Kim, S. H., McKinstry, R., Gerig, G., Hazlett, H. C., Marrus, N., Piven, J., Pruett, J. & Styner, M., 2026, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025 – 28th International Conference, 2025, Proceedings. Gee, J. C., Hong, J., Sudre, C. H., Golland, P., Alexander, D. C., Iglesias, J. E., Venkataraman, A. & Kim, J. H. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 473-483 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15961 LNCS).

• Brain functional connectivity correlates of autism diagnosis and familial liability in 24-month-olds

  for the IBIS Network, Dec 2025, In: Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders. 17, 1, 40.

• Functional connectivity between the visual and salience networks and autistic social features at school-age

  for the IBIS Network, Dec 2025, In: Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders. 17, 1, 23.

• Sleep in Infants with Down Syndrome or Familial Likelihood of Autism in the First Year of Life

  Coco, E. R., Munson, J., John, T. S., Dager, S. R., Botteron, K., Elison, J., Garic, D., Hazlett, H., Lee, C., Marrus, N., Pruett, J. R., Schultz, R., Shen, M., Zwaigenbaum, L., Piven, J. & Estes, A., Dec 2025, In: Journal of autism and developmental disorders. 55, 12, p. 4439-4449 11 p.

• Early White Matter Microstructure Alterations in Infants with Down Syndrome

  Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS) Network, Nov 1 2025, In: NeuroImage. 321, 121489.

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Funded Research Projects

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