Scientists believe that glaucoma and Alzheimer’s could be connected because they both involve damage to important cells that ...

Traumatic optic neuropathy is visual loss caused by trauma to the optic nerve. Injuries, classified as direct or indirect, are also characterized by location. Intracanalicular optic nerve injury ...

Your optic nerve is important as it is essential to our sight. The optic nerve’s function is to transmit information that we see and what is formed on our retina (situated at the back of your ...

What initially began as an appointment for the 16-year-old to get new glasses turned into a life-changing diagnosis of a ...

The following is a summary of “Raised Intracranial Pressure in Seizures Induced by Electroconvulsive Therapy,” published in ...

A relatively rare condition, NAION is believed to be caused by insufficient blood flow to the optic nerve head. The result is painless but irreversible vision loss in one eye. There are no ...

indicating a transverse section of myelinated nerve fibers. (D) Electron microscopy of a myelinated axon in a mouse optic nerve at higher magnification. The axon is surrounded by multilamellar ...

The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...

The boy was conscious and oriented. Aside from the bilateral optic disc edema, the general neurologic examination, including that of other cranial nerves, was nonfocal. Ophthalmologic examination ...