Amanda D Deacy

TL;DR: The brain–gut axis is described as a means to increase understanding among pediatric psychologists of the biological mechanisms implicated in pediatric GI disorders and how their interactions with psychological and contextual factors maintain GI symptoms and practical ways for pediatric psychologists to incorporate the discussion of biological mechanisms and the brain– gut axis into patient education and psychological interventions are provided.

TL;DR: Quality improvement methodology can be used to help close the gap in implementing pain prevention strategies during routine vaccination procedures for children using a Plan-Do-Study-Act framework.

TL;DR: Outcomes for youth with FGIDs may be significantly improved by paying specific attention to sleep, ensuring adequate skills for relaxation, and screening of and referral for treatment of comorbid depression.

TL;DR: Support was found for use of the STICSA-C as a reasonably good internally consistent measure for assessing cognitive and somatic anxiety in pediatric samples and an improved parsimonious model was suggested.

TL;DR: It is suggested that significantly greater inflammation in the stomach, crypt distortion in the colon, and eosinophilia in the rectosigmoid distinguished the IBD group from the comparison group at the time of the initial endoscopic evaluation.