Kathleen Light

Kathleen C. Light, PhD is a Research Professor of in the department of Anesthesiology in University of Utah School of Medicine. Professor Light (and her husband, Dr. Alan Light) are known for their work on post-exertional gene expression after exercise.

Education

 * NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Post-doctoral Fellowship - Cardiovascular Psychophysiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 * Ph.D. - Life-span Developmental Psychology, Syracuse University
 * M.A. - Life-span Developmental Psychology, Syracuse University
 * A.B. - Psychology, Vassar College

Books

 * 2010, Chapter 11: Myalgia and Fatigue—Translation from Mouse Sensory Neurons to Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndromes In: Translational Pain Research – From Mouse to Man (Full Text)

Notable studies

 * 2009, Moderate Exercise Increases Expression for Sensory, Adrenergic, and Immune Genes in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients But Not in Normal Subjects (Full Text)
 * 2010, Severity of symptom flare after moderate exercise is linked to cytokine activity in chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2011, Evidence for a heritable predisposition to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2011, Absence of XMRV retrovirus and other murine leukemia virus-related viruses in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2012, Gene expression alterations at baseline and following moderate exercise in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2012, Differences in metabolite-detecting, adrenergic, and immune gene expression after moderate exercise in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, patients with multiple sclerosis, and healthy controls (Full text)
 * 2012, Genetics and Gene Expression Involving Stress and Distress Pathways in Fibromyalgia with and without Comorbid Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full text)
 * 2013, Differing leukocyte gene expression profiles associated with fatigue in patients with prostate cancer versus chronic fatigue syndrome - (Full Text)
 * 2016, Gene expression factor analysis to differentiate pathways linked to fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and depression in a diverse patient sample (Full Text)
 * 2017, Neural Consequences of Post-Exertion Malaise in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text)

Online presence

 * PubMed

Learn more

 * 2014, Sufferers of chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia have hope in new diagnostic tool