Additional Titles & Roles
- Attending, School Consultation Clinic at Washington University Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic
- Attending, Autism Clinical Center, Washington University
Education & Training
- Fellowship: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2012
- Residency: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2010
- MD: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2007
- PhD: Neuroscience: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2007
- BS: Biological Sciences: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1999
Major Awards
- 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
Child and adolescent psychiatry, autism, pervasive developmental disorder, developmental disability, early childhood development, school consultation
Research Interests
Autism, development of language and social cognition, social motivation, emotion regulation in early childhood, biomarkers of child psychiatric disorders, neuroimaging
Key Publications
- Marrus N, Eggebrecht AT, Todorov A, Elison JT, Wolff JJ, Cole L, Gao W, Pandey J, Shen MD, Swanson MR, Emerson RW, Klohr CL, Adams CM, Estes AM, Zwaigenbaum L, Botteron KN, McKinstry RC, Constantino JN, Evans AC, Hazlett HC, Dager SR, Paterson SJ, Schultz RT, Styner MA, Gerig G, , Schlaggar BL, Piven J, Pruett JR, (2018 Feb). Walking, Gross Motor Development, and Brain Functional Connectivity in Infants and Toddlers. Cereb. Cortex. 28(2): 750-763.
Read publication »Walking, Gross Motor Development, and Brain Functional Connectivity in Infants and Toddlers. - Hwang, HG, Marrus, N, Irving, K, and Markson, L. Three-year-old children detect social exclusion in third-party interactions. Journal of Cognition and Development, 2017 Sep 19. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2017.1368517.
- Constantino JN, Kennon-McGill S, Weichselbaum C, Marrus N, Haider A, Glowinski AL, Gillespie S, Klaiman C, Klin A, Jones W, (2017 07). Infant viewing of social scenes is under genetic control and is atypical in autism. Nature. 547(7663): 340-344.
Read publication »Infant viewing of social scenes is under genetic control and is atypical in autism. - Marrus N, Belden A, Nishino T, Handler T, Ratnanather JT, Miller M, Barch D, Luby J, Botteron K, (2015 Jul). Ventromedial prefrontal cortex thinning in preschool-onset depression. J Affect Disord. 180: 79-86.
Read publication »Ventromedial prefrontal cortex thinning in preschool-onset depression. - Marrus N, Glowinski AL, Jacob T, Klin A, Jones W, Drain CE, Holzhauer KE, Hariprasad V, Fitzgerald RT, Mortenson EL, Sant SM, Cole L, Siegel SA, Zhang Y, Agrawal A, Heath AC, Constantino JN, (2015 Dec). Rapid video-referenced ratings of reciprocal social behavior in toddlers: a twin study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 56(12): 1338-46.
Read publication »Rapid video-referenced ratings of reciprocal social behavior in toddlers: a twin study. - Marrus N, Faughn C, Shuman J, Petersen SE, Constantino JN, Povinelli DJ, Pruett JR, (2011 May). Initial description of a quantitative, cross-species (chimpanzee-human) social responsiveness measure. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 50(5): 508-18.
Read publication »Initial description of a quantitative, cross-species (chimpanzee-human) social responsiveness measure.
Funded Research Projects
National Institute of Mental Health, “Advancing Early Behavioral and Neural Phenotypes of Social Motivation in ASD,” Principal Investigator