African wild dogs might use facial expressions to communicate with each other as they hunt in packs on the savanna. Arno Meintjes via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED Puppy-dog eyes are irresistible.

A new research has revealed that some eye muscles have the unique capacity to stay unaffected by the crippling disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS. The incurable, devastating neural disease ...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, commonly known as ALS, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that affects all voluntary muscles in the body leading to paralysis and breathing difficulties. Eye ...

Researchers have discovered a key gene for generating eye movements. Using zebrafish, they developed a compelling model system to analyze the brain-eye muscle connections, and found that the brain ...

ROME – Intracameral phenylephrine injection minimizes the effects of intraoperative floppy iris syndrome in patients who have taken alpha-1 blocking drugs, according to one surgeon. “In these patients ...

Though eyelid twitching (technically called myokymia) can feel disconcerting, the good news is that it's typically fleeting and harmless. Nevertheless, when you're in the throes of the mini muscle ...

MAY I be allowed through your columns to direct the attention of physiologists and anatomists to certain special features in ocular accommodation, and in the movements of the iris in birds, and to a ...