Researchers in Gisborne are helping develop a new MRI scan method, which they say can detect subtle brain lesions in multiple ...

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.

Optic nerve drusen were diagnosed through ophthalmic B-mode US. Collected data included demographics, patients' medical history and headache history, imaging results, lumbar puncture, and eye ...

During acute optic neuritis onset, RNFL thickness first increases due to optic nerve swelling during inflammation, but post-inflammation reduction in thickness indicates axonal loss. Because RNFL is ...

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 ...

An optic nerve that has an injury cannot be fixed, so usually, if there is vision loss from ischemic optic neuropathy, it is permanent.

Measuring optic nerve sheath diameter using ultrasonography in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension Medição do diâmetro da bainha do nervo óptico ...

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

According to a new study, optic nerve lesions are evident in up to 40% of imaging studies in patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) of multiple sclerosis (MS), and the addition of the ...

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.

The vision of mice with damaged optic nerves has been partly restored by generating new nerve cells in the eye to replace ones that died. The hope is this approach could help treat people with ...

Purpose Histological evidence indicates that the earliest structural changes to the optic nerve head (ONH) in glaucoma occur in the lamina cribrosa (LC) and its interface with the sclera. However, ...