Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . "The value of both visual fields and optic nerve imaging is to better detect changes in the patient," said ...

A landmark study by Hyderabad’s L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, has ...

Glaucoma creeps in without pain or obvious symptoms, slowly damaging your optic nerve. Regular eye exams and early detection ...

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 this ...

Research suggests the possibility of restoring at least some visual function in people blinded by optic nerve damage from glaucoma, estimated to affect more than 4 million Americans, or from trauma.

Treatment for optic nerve cupping takes many different forms depending on the severity of the disease and the factors that originally caused the optic nerve damage. Research will lead to future ...

Stimulation of the nervous system with neurotechnology has opened up new avenues for treating human disorders, such as prosthetic arms and legs that restore the sense of touch in amputees, prosthetic ...

St. Louis, Feb. 1, 2004 -- Young people with eye diseases that damage the inner part of the retina and optic nerve are significantly more likely to have sleep disorders than those with other types of ...

Blindness is difficult to treat, in part because it can be caused by so many different issues in the eye, the brain, or the optic nerve connecting the two. But recently, scientists from the Swiss ...