Selected Publications

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Book Chapters

  • Constantino, JN and Marrus, N. “Autism Spectrum Disorders.” In Luby, J (Editor), Handbook of Preschool Mental Health. 2nd ed. 2017, New York: Guilford Press.
  • Marrus, N, and Constantino JN. “Autism Spectrum Disorders.” In Zeanah, C (Editor), Encyclopedia of Infant Development, 2nd ed. 2020, Elsevier.
  • Gwynette, MF, Marrus, N, Vasa, RA. “Transition-Age Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.” In Chan, V and Derenne, J (Editors), Transition Age Youth Mental Healthcare-Bridging the Gap Between Pediatric and Adult Psychiatric Care, 2021, Springer Nature.

Publications

  1. Marrus N, Botteron KN, Hawks Z, Pruett, JR, Jr., Elison, JT, Jackson JJ, Markson L, Eggebrecht AT, Burrows CA, Zwaigenbaum L, Dager S, Estes A, Hazlett H, Schultz RT, Piven J, Constantino JN. Social Motivation in Infancy Is Associated with Familial Recurrence of ASD. Development and Psychopathology, in press.
  2. Burrows CA, Grzadzinski RL, Donovan K, Stallworthy IC, Rutsohn J, St John T, Marrus N, Parish-Morris J, MacIntyre L, Hampton J, Pandey J, Shen MD, Botteron KN, Estes AM, Dager SR, Hazlett HC, Pruett JR Jr, Schultz RT, Zwaigenbaum L, Truong KN, Piven J, Elison JT; IBIS Network. A Data-Driven Approach in an Unbiased Sample Reveals Equivalent Sex Ratio of Autism Spectrum Disorder-Associated Impairment in Early Childhood. Biol Psychiatry. 2022 Jun 7:S0006-3223(22)01313-0. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.05.027.
  3. Konrad J, Marrus N, Lang CE. A Feasibility Study of Bilateral Wrist Sensors for Measuring Motor Traits in Children With Autism. Percept Mot Skills. 2022 Sep 6:315125221125275. doi: 10.1177/00315125221125275.
  4. Dougherty, J. D., Marrus, N., Maloney, S. E., Yip, B., Sandin, S., Turner, T. N., Selmanovic, D., Kroll, K. L., Gutmann, D. H., Constantino, J. N., & Weiss, L. A. (2022). Can the “female protective effect” liability threshold model explain sex differences in autism spectrum disorder? Neuron. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.06.020. (PDF)
  5. Marrus, N., Koth, K. A., Hellings, J. A., McDonald, R., Gwynette, M. F., Muhle, R., Lohr, W. D., & Vasa, R. A. (2022). Psychiatry training in autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability: Ongoing gaps and emerging opportunities. Autism, https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613221112197
  6. Yankowitz LD, Petrulla V, Plate S, Tunc B, Guthrie W, Meera SS, Tena K, Pandey J, Swanson MR, Pruett JR Jr, Cola M, Russell A, Marrus N, Hazlett HC, Botteron K, Constantino JN, Dager SR, Estes A, Zwaigenbaum L, Piven J, Schultz RT, Parish-Morris J; IBIS Network. Infants later diagnosed with autism have lower canonical babbling ratios in the first year of life. Mol Autism. 2022 Jun 27;13(1):28. doi: 10.1186/s13229-022-00503-8.(PDF)
  7. Marrus, N., Turner, T. N., Forsen, E., Bolster, D., Marvin, A., Whitehouse, A., Klinger, L., Gurnett, C. A., & Constantino, J. N. (2021). Genetic counseling as preventive intervention: toward individual specification of transgenerational autism risk. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 13(1), 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-021-09389-8. (PDF)
  8. Stallworthy, I, Lasch, C, Berry, D, Wolff, J, Pruett, J, Marrus, N, Swanson, M, Botteron, K, Dager, S, Estes, A, Hazlett, H, Schultz, R, Zwaigenbaum, L, Piven, J, & Elison, J. Variability in Responding to Joint Attention Cues in the First Year is Associated With Autism Outcome. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2022;61(3):413-422. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2021.03.023
  9. Hawks ZW, Todorov A, Marrus N, Nishino T, Talovic M, Nebel MB, Girault JB, Davis S, Marek S, Seitzman BA, Eggebrecht AT, Elison J, Dager S, Mosconi MW, Tychsen L, Snyder AZ, Botteron K, Estes A, Evans A, Gerig G, Hazlett HC, McKinstry RC, Pandey J, Schultz R, Styner M, Wolff JJ, Zwaigenbaum L, Markson L, Petersen SE, Constantino JN, White DA, Piven J, Pruett JR, Jr. A prospective evaluation of infant cerebellar-cerebral functional connectivity in relation to behavioral development in autism. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 2021, doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2021.12.004. (PDF) 
  10. Gwynette MF, Koth KA, Marrus N, Hellings JA, Lohr WD, Muhle RA, Vasa RA; AACAP Autism and Intellectual Disability Committee’s Training Workgroup. Developing Freely Accessible Educational Videos to Enhance Knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 2021 Sep 27:S0890-8567(21)01844-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.09.397. PMID: 34597774.
  11. Plate S, Yankowitz L, Rescorla L, Swanson MR, Meera SS, Estes A, Marrus N, Cola M, Petrulla V, Faggen A, Pandey J, Paterson S, Pruett JR, Jr., Hazlett H, Dager S, St. John T, Botteron KN, Zwaigenbaum L, Piven J, Schultz R, Parish-Morris J, and the IBIS Network. Infant Vocalizing and Phenotypic Outcomes in Autism: Evidence from the First Two Years. Child Development. 2021;00:1–16. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13697.
  12. Marrus, N, Grant, J, Harris-Olenak, B, Albright, J, Bolster, D, Kennon-McGill, S, Benedict, B, Tan, A, Hoyman, LC, Naff, S, Haber, JR, Zhang, Y, Jacob, T, Agrawal, A, Heath, AC, Elison, J, and Constantino, JN, Elison, JTE, Glowinski, AL (in press). Genetic architecture of reciprocal social behavior in toddlers: Implications for heterogeneity in the early origins of autism spectrum disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 2020;32(4):1190-1205. doi:10.1017/S0954579420000723. (PDF)
  13. Bai, D, Marrus, N, Yip, BHK, Reichenberg, A, Constantino, JN, Sandin, S. Inherited Risk for Autism Through Maternal and Paternal Lineage Biological Psychiatry, 2020;88(6):480-487. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.03.013 (PDF)
  14. Pohl, A, Jones, W, Marrus, N, Klin A, Constantino, JN. Behavioral predictors of autism recurrence are genetically independent and influence social reciprocity: evidence that polygenic ASD risk is mediated by separable elements of developmental liability. Translational Psychiatry, 2019 Aug 22;9(1):202. doi: 10.1038/s41398-019-0545-z. PMID: 31439834. (PDF)
  15. Hawks Z, Constantino JN, Weichselbaum C, Marrus N. Accelerating Motor Skill Acquisition for Bicycle Riding in Children with ASD: A Pilot Study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020;50(1):342-348. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04224-5. (PDF)
  16. Swanson MR, Donovan K, Paterson S, Wolff JJ, Parish-Morris J, Meera SS, Watson LR, Estes AM, Marrus N, Elison JT, Shen MD, McNeilly HB, MacIntyre L, Zwaigenbaum L, St John T, Botteron K, Dager S, Piven J; IBIS Network. Early language exposure supports later language skills in infants with and without autism. Autism Research. 2019 Jun 28. doi: 10.1002/aur.2163. PMID: 31254329. (PDF)
  17. McKinnon, CJ, Eggebrecht, AT, Todorov, A, Wolff, JJ, Elison, JT, Adams, CM, Snyder, AZ, Estes, AM, Zwaigenbaum, L, Botteron, KN, McKinstry, RC, Marrus, N, Evans, AC, Hazlett, HC, Dager, SR, Paterson, S, Pandey, J, Schultz, RT, Styner, M, Gerig, G, Schlaggar, BL, Petersen, SE, and Piven J & Pruett, Jr, JR, for The IBIS Network. Restricted and repetitive behavior and brain functional connectivity in infants at risk for developing autism spectrum disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuroimaging, 201.9 Jan;4(1):50-61. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.09.008. PMID: 30446435. (PDF)
  18. Marrus, N, Hall, LP, Paterson, SJ, Elison, JT, Wolff, J, Pruett, JR, Jr., Hazlett, HC, Estes, AM, The IBIS Network*, Piven, J, Botteron, KN, and Constantino, JN. Language delay aggregates in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2018 Oct 22;10(1):29. doi: 10.1186/s11689-018-9247-8. PMID: 30348077. (PDF)
  19. Marrus, N, Kennon-McGill, S, Harris, B, Zhang, Y, Glowinski, AL, & Constantino, JN. Use of a Video Scoring Anchor for Rapid Serial Assessment of Social Communication in Toddlers. Journal of visualized experiments: JoVE, 2018; (133). doi: 10.3791/57041. PMID: 29608153. (PDF)
  20. Hawks, ZW, Marrus, N, Glowinski, AL, & Constantino, JN. (2018). Early Origins of Autism Comorbidity: Neuropsychiatric Traits Correlated in Childhood Are Independent in Infancy. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2018 Mar 16; 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s10802-018-0410-1. PMID: 29546561. (PDF)
  21. Marrus, N, Eggebrecht, A, Todorov, A, Elison, J, Wolff, JJ, Gao, W, Pandey, J, Shen, M, Swanson, MR, Emerson, R, Klohr, C, Adams, C, Snyder, AZ, Estes, AM, Zwaigenbaum, L, Botteron, KN, McKinstry, RC, Constantino, JN, Evans, AC, Hazlett, HC, Dager, SR, Paterson, S, Schultz, RT, Styner, M, Gerig, G, The IBIS Network, Schlaggar, BL, Petersen, SE, and Piven J & Pruett, Jr, JR. Walking, Gross Motor Development, and Brain Functional Connectivity in Infants and Toddlers. Cerebral Cortex, 2017 Nov 23; 1-14. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhx313. PMID: 29186388. (PDF)
  22. 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. (PDF)
  23. Swanson, MR, Shen, MD, Wolff, JJ, Elison, JT, Emerson, R, Styner, M, Hazlett, H, Truong, K, Watson, L, Paterson, S, Marrus, N, Botteron, K, Pandey, J, Schultz, RT, Dager, S, Zwaigenbaum, L, Estes, AM, and Piven, J for the IBIS Network. Subcortical brain and behavior phenotypes differentiate infants with autism versus language delay. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2017 Nov; 2(8):664-672. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.007. PMID: 29560900. (PDF)
  24. Constantino, JN, Kennon-McGill, S, Weichselbaum, C, Marrus, N, Haider, A, Glowinski, AL, Gillespie, S, Klaiman, C, Klin, A, and Jones, W. Infant viewing of social scenes is under genetic control and is atypical in autism. Nature, 2017 Jul 20; 547(7663):340-44. doi: 10.1038/nature22999. PMID: 28700580. (PDF)
  25. Marrus, N and Hall, LP. Intellectual Disability and Language Disorder. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics N Am. 2017 Jul; 26(3):539-554. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2017.03.001. PMID: 28577608. (PDF)
  26. Constantino, JN and Marrus, N. The Early Origins of Autism. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics N Am. 2017 Jul; 26(3):555-570. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2017.02.008. PMID: 28577609.
  27. Marrus, N, Belden, A, Nishino, T, Handler, T, Ratnanather, JT, Miller, M, Barch D, Luby, J, Botteron K. Ventromedial prefrontal cortex thinning in preschool onset depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2015 Jul 15; 180: 79-86. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2015.03.033. PMID: 25881284. PMCID: PMC4772729. (PDF)
  28. 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. Rapid video-referenced ratings of reciprocal social behavior in toddlers: a twin study. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015 Dec; 56(12):1338-46. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12391. PMID: 25677414. PMCID: PMC4775094. (PDF)
  29. Faughn, C, Marrus, N, Shuman, J, Ross, SR, Constantino, JN, Pruett, JR, Jr., & Povinelli, DJ. Brief Report: Chimpanzee Social Responsiveness Scale (CSRS) Detects Individual Variation in Social Responsiveness for Captive Chimpanzees. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015 May; 45(5), 1483-1488. doi: 10.1007/s10803-014-2273-9. PMID: 25312279. (PDF)
  30. Marrus, N, Underwood-Riordan, H, Randall, F, Zhang, Y, Constantino, JN. Lack of effect of risperidone on core autistic symptoms: data from a longitudinal study. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 2014 Nov 24; 24(9): 513-8. doi: 10.1089/cap.2014.0055. PMID: 25361070. PMCID: PMC4238250. (PDF)
  31. Marrus, N, Bell, M, Luby, J. Psychotropic medications and their effect on brain volumes in childhood psychopathology. Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology News, 2014 Nov; 19(2): 1-8. doi: 10.1521/capn.2014.19.2.1. PMID: 28701856. (PDF)
  32. Marrus, N, Veenstra-Vander Weele, J, Hellings, J, Stigler, K, Szymanski, L, King, B, Carlisle, L, Cook, E. The AACAP Autism and Intellectual Disability Committee, and Pruett JR, Jr. Training of child and adolescent psychiatry fellows in autism and intellectual disability. Autism. 2014 May; 18(4): 471-5. doi: 10.1177/1362361313477247. PMID: 24113341. (PDF)
  33. Luby, J, Belden, A, Botteron, K, Marrus, N, Harms, MP, Babb, C, Nishino, T, and Barch, D. The effects of poverty on childhood brain development: the mediating effect of caregiving and stressful life events. JAMA Pediatrics, 2013 Dec; 167(12): 1135-42. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.3139. PMID: 24165922. PMCID: PMC4001721. (PDF)
  34. Marrus, N, Faughn, C, Shuman, J, Petersen, SE, Constantino, JN, Povinelli, DJ, & Pruett, JR, Jr. Initial description of a quantitative, cross-species (chimpanzee-human) social responsiveness measure. Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011 May; 50(5), 508-518. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2011.01.009. PMID: 21515200. PMCID: PMC3082744. (PDF)
  35. Viquez, NM, Fuger, P, Daniels, R, Valakh, V, Rasse, T, DiAntonio, A. PP2A and GSK-3β Act Antagonistically to Regulate Active Zone Development. Journal of Neuroscience, 2009 Sep 16; 29(37):11484-11494. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5584-08.2009. PMID:19759297. PMCID: PMC2776049. (PDF)
  36. Viquez, NM, Li, CR, Wairkar, YP, DiAntonio, A. The B’ Protein Phosphatase 2A Regulatory Subunit well-rounded Regulates Synaptic Growth and Cytoskeletal Stability at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction. Journal of Neuroscience, 2006 Sep 6; 26(36): 9293-9303. PMID: 16957085. (PDF)
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