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 ...

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 ...

Glaucoma is a disease in which the nerve of the eye (the optic nerve) is gradually damaged over time, resulting in a loss of vision. This disease is often associated with increased eye pressure.

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 ...

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 ...

Optic nerve atrophy is damage to the optic nerve. Causes include poor blood flow to the eye, disease, trauma, or exposure to toxic substances.Ophthalmologist Raj Pathmaraj explains more about this.

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 ...