Claire Hutchinson

Claire V Hutchinson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Her research interests are:

• Spatial vision
• Motion perception
• Visual cognition
• Higher-level (cognitive) influences on low-level visual processes
• Visual and cognitive ageing
• Visual markers of neurodegenerative, neuropsychiatric and neuroimmune diseases

Notable studies

• 2013, Characterising eye movement dysfunction in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
• 2013, Patterns of abnormal visual attention in myalgic encephalomyelitis
• 2014, Vision-related symptoms as a clinical feature of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis? Evidence from the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire (Abstract)
• 2015, Increased Vulnerability to Pattern-Related Visual Stress in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
• 2018, Restricted Spatial Windows of Visibility in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
• 2018, Visual aspects of reading performance in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) (Abstract)

See also

• Visual dysfunction

Thought processes, including attention, reasoning, and memory.

cognition Thought processes, including attention, reasoning, and memory.

cognition Thought processes, including attention, reasoning, and memory.

stress Stress can by either physical or psychological, or both. Stress is either 1) a state of emotional or psychological strain or 2) the physical stress (pressure or tension) that a physical object such the human body is placed under, e.g., a stress test is a medical test that monitors the cardiovascular system during strenuous exercise.

See myalgic encephalomyelitis.

myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.) - A disease often marked by neurological symptoms, but fatigue is sometimes a symptom as well. Some diagnostic criteria distinguish it from chronic fatigue syndrome, while other diagnostic criteria consider it to be a synonym for chronic fatigue syndrome. A defining characteristic of ME is post-exertional malaise (PEM), or post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE), which is a notable exacerbation of symptoms brought on by small exertions. PEM can last for days or weeks. Symptoms can include cognitive impairments, muscle pain (myalgia), trouble remaining upright (orthostatic intolerance), sleep abnormalities, and gastro-intestinal impairments, among others. An estimated 25% of those suffering from ME are housebound or bedbound. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies ME as a neurological disease.