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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• Evaluating canonical babbling ratios extracted from day-long audio recordings in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder

  Meera, S. S., Swaminathan, D., Pawar, R., Yankowitz, L., Donovan, K., Khuu, K., Parish-Morris, J., Warren, S. F., Estes, A., Zwaigenbaum, L., Clements, M., Anderson, D. V., Schultz, R. T., Hazlett, H. C., John, T. S., Pandey, J., Marrus, N., Botteron, K., Dager, S. R. & Swanson, M. R. & 2 others, Watson, L. R. & Piven, J., Jun 2025, In: Infant Behavior and Development. 79, 102059.

• Clarifying the developmental association between gesture and later vocabulary for autistic children

  for the IBIS Network, Jun 2025, In: Infant Behavior and Development. 79, 102058.

• Measuring and interpreting individual differences in fetal, infant, and toddler neurodevelopment

  Olson, H. A., Camacho, M. C., Abdurokhmonova, G., Ahmad, S., Chen, E. M., Chung, H., Lorenzo, R. D., Dineen, Á. T., Ganz, M., Licandro, R., Magnain, C., Marrus, N., McCormick, S. A., Rutter, T. M., Wagner, L., Woodruff Carr, K., Zöllei, L., Vaughn, K. A. & Madsen, K. S., Jun 2025, In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 73, 101539.

• White matter microstructure in school-age children with down syndrome

  Garic, D., Al-Ali, K. W., Nasir, A., Azrak, O., Grzadzinski, R. L., McKinstry, R. C., Wolff, J. J., Lee, C. M., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., St. John, T., Dager, S. R., Estes, A. M., Gerig, G., Zwaigenbaum, L., Marrus, N., Botteron, K. N., Piven, J., Styner, M. & Hazlett, H. C. & 1 others, Shen, M. D., Jun 2025, In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 73, 101540.

• Statistical properties of functional connectivity MRI enrichment analysis in school-age autism research

  for the IBIS Network, Apr 2025, In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 72, 101534.

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Funded Research Projects

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