When astronauts began spending six months and more aboard the International Space Station, they started to notice changes in ...

Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) causes progressive childhood blindness — but what if we could stop it? Boston Children's Hospital researchers Drs. Thomas Schwarz and Chen Ding have identified ...

Historically, optic nerve involvement has been excluded from MS diagnostic criteria, but its inclusion in the new iteration is expected to significantly accelerate time to diagnosis.

With the most highly anticipated major tournament of the year just days away, the Call of Duty League community has been hit with one of the most controversial ...

Intracranial optic nerve tissue was obtained 5 mm anterior to the optic chiasm. Cross sections of 40 μm thickness were immunostained for axons with phosphorylated neurofilament, using antibody SMI31 ...

The optic chiasm constitutes a segment of the optical pathways, between the optic nerves in front and the optic tracts behind. It is a crossroad for nerve fibers that carry nerve impulses from the ...

What Is Optic Nerve Drusen? Optic nerve drusen is a rare eye condition that affects between 3 and 24 people out of every 1,000 in the population. It’s difficult to estimate exactly how common ...

Purpose To study changes in the opening angle of the optic nerve and the angle of the ocular orbit with increasing age in normal Japanese children. Methods We studied 147 normal children (aged 6 ...

A study found semaglutide users are likelier experience a stroke of the optic nerve that causes blindness.

Damage to the optic nerve can lead to irreversible blindness. A newly investigated regeneration factor could change that, UConn researchers report in the May 2024 issue of Experimental Neurology.

A picture of the human optic nerve chiasm and associated optic nerve sheath that covers it. Purple highlights the optic nerve tissue and the white vasculature surrounding it highlights the lymphatic ...