When your optic nerve doesn’t develop all the way, you may not be able to see through that area of your eye. This congenital condition is most often experienced by people who have mothers with ...

When Sam Taylor was 11, he thought he only had chronic headaches. It turned out to be a low-grade optic glioma, a type of ...

There are many ways in which the optic nerves can be damaged in glaucoma, resulting in optic nerve cupping. This is very harmful as it leads to extreme loss of vision in the affected eye. Treatment ...

Optic nerve involvement is common among patients presenting with CIS of MS. Adding the optic nerve as a fifth site for dissemination in space fulfillment increases the sensitivity, decreases the ...

Researchers identified two specific problems that led to vision loss among these patients. One group’s papilledema led to ...

Traumatic optic nerve head avulsion and traumatic optic neuropathy are serious and can be visually devastating. Most cases have poor prognosis for visual recovery, leaving patients with minimal or no ...

A protein recently isolated from white blood cells could offer a new way to repair nerve cells damaged by injury or disease. Like most neurons in the central nervous system, those that form the bundle ...

One disturbing aspect of the Ebola virus is that even if doesn't kill you, it can cause lasting problems such as joint pain, fatigue, mental issues and visual changes. By some measures, 20 to 25 ...

For the first time, scientists have regenerated a damaged optic nerve -- from the eye to the brain. This achievement, which occurred in laboratory mice and is described in the March 1, 2005 issue of ...

PITTSBURGH — Scientists have strived for successful eye transplants for centuries. Early attempts read like the diary of Mary Shelley: implanting a dog’s eye into a rat’s groin, transplanting a rat’s ...