Natasha Marrus, MD, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
Profile
About the Speaker: Natasha Marrus is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology at the Washington University in St. Louis, where she also received her MD-PhD in 2007. Her research focuses on the development of social motivation in infants and young children, including developing measures of social motivation to be applied in early childhood (with a focus on children at risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder). She uses existing data to characterize early brain-behavior relationships underlying social motivation, and investigates the relationship between social motivation and other skills domains, such as language.
For Further Information, Contact: Clark Kellogg at kellogg@waisman.wisc.edu
The seminar series is funded by the John D. Wiley Conference Center Fund, the Friends of the Waisman Center and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) grant P50HD105353.
