Your eyes and brain aren't just close together-they're connected. Simply put, your retina and optic nerve are extensions of ...

Over 4,000,000 Americans are living with glaucoma, many without knowing. A woman in her fifties details her subtle symptoms, and how her sight was saved.

Dr Adèle Ehongo discusses peripapillary intrachoroidal cavitation (PICC), a masquerade of normal-tension glaucoma ...

Inhibiting the complement C3/C3a receptor (C3aR) pathway reduces visual and optic nerve impairment in neuromyelitis optica ... Özge worked as a bench scientist for six years in the field of ...

It’s a reactive nerve cell misfire that sends ... blurring or a dark spot in the center of the visual field, known as a central scotoma. Optic neuritis commonly improves on its own.

Optic nerve drusen is a rare eye condition that ... Your eye doctor, though, can check your total visual field with a special test to see if you’re blind in any areas. The area where you ...

Besides vision changes such as double vision, drooping eyelids, and visual field loss, pituitary adenomas also may cause the following symptoms: When a disease or lesion affects the optic nerve before ...

Fig 2 shows the different types of visual field defect that are associated with the location of a leison. Pathology causing optic nerve deficit includes tumour, vascular abnormality, infection ...

In the specialized fields of ophthalmologyand optometry, doctors measure sight by having you focus on a central point while keeping your head still. You’ll also be able to see above and below ...

Knowledge of the pathway of the optic nerve from the eye to the brain is important because the origin of different diseases that affect vision can be localized based upon the location of the defect in ...

Signs a doctor may observe include: increase eye pressure adhesions on the iris damage to the optic nerve visual field loss, although there may be no effect on the clarity of a person’s vision ...

Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) occurs when there is not enough blood flow into the eye. This causes damage to the optic nerve, quickly leading to vision loss. There are two subtypes of ...