Natasha Marrus is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She has more than 10 years of experience in developmental neuroimaging and applying novel phenotyping of autism-relevant behaviors in infancy to quantify their relationship to later autism outcomes.
Natasha Marrus
Associate professor of psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
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