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Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMed Central Research Open Access Patterns of postural sway in high anxious children John F Stins*, Annick Ledebt, Claudia Emck, Elisabeth H van Dokkum and Peter J Beek Address: Research Institute MOVE, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, van der Boechorststraat 9, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Email: John F Stins* - j.stins@fbw.vu.nl; Annick Ledebt - a_ledebt@fbw.vu.nl; Claudia Emck - c.emck@fbw.vu.nl; Elisabeth H van Dokkum - liesjetvandokkum@; Peter J Beek - p.beek@fbw.vu.nl * Corresponding author Published: 2 October 2009 Received: 8 June 2009 Accepted: 2 October 2009 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2009, 5:42 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-5-42 This article is available from: /content/5/1/42 © 2009 Stins et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Current research suggests that elevated levels of anxiety have a negative impact on the regulation of balance. However, most studies to date examined only global balance performance, with little attention to the way body posture is organized in space and time. The aim of this study is to examine whether posturographic measures can reveal (sub)clinical balance deficits in children with