… Ball—RELATED: Grant: National Institute of Mental Health, Comments: Salary support was
… Dr Ball is supported by grant T32MH019938 from the National Institute of Mental Health. …

Objective. To conduct a systematic review of evaluated treatments for recurrent abdominal
pain (RAP) in children. Methods. Online bibliographic databases were searched for the terms “…

Health care expenditures have increased dramatically from 5% to 13.5% of the Gross Domestic
Product of the United States since 1960. As a result, more attention has focused on the …

Four experiments with 61 university students demonstrated that more time is required to
scan further distances across visual images, even when the same amount of material falls …

Background Young children with older siblings and those who attend day care are at increased
risk for infections, which in turn may protect against the development of allergic diseases, …

Objective. To determine the excess cost of health care services for three illnesses in formula-fed
infants in the first year of life, after adjusting for potential confounders. Methods. …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is thought to involve emotional hyper-reactivity and emotion
dysregulation. However, the precise nature of the emotion dysregulation in SAD has not been …

BackgroundThe mechanisms that contribute to emotion dysregulation in anxiety disorders
are not well understood. Two common disorders, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and …

Background Because of the paucity of effective evidence-based therapies for children with
recurrent abdominal pain, we evaluated the therapeutic effect of guided imagery, a well-…

… Steele Memorial Children's Research Center, University of Arizona College of Medicine (Drs
Ball, Holberg, Aldous, Martinez, and Wright), Tucson. … Ball for her review of the manuscript. …