A new study published JAMA Ophthalmology has brought attention to a series of vision problems observed in patients taking ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first-ever whole-eye transplant on Aaron James, a military veteran who suffered a severe electrical accident. Despite successful attachment and blood flow, ...

Astronauts face vision loss due to microgravity-induced eye changes. NASA races to find solutions before Mars missions, where ...

These can include: MS is a progressive autoimmune disease that causes demyelination in the brain, spine, or optic nerve. The immune system damages myelin, forming lesions or “plaques”.

Neuralink’s brain-computer interface technology also has been discussed for other potential uses, for example, in mental ...

Evolution can't slip into reverse and head back to the drawing board when it becomes apparent it's ballsed things up. If someone designed this, I give them 1 star out of 5 and want my money back ...

Scientists have taken a look at the effect dying has on the human brain and what they found is pretty insane. The idea that your brain just stops working when you die couldn't be further from the ...

In some instances, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and brain MRI with or without contrast may be ... with previous studies that reported the decrease of axonal count of human optic nerve with age ...

The optic nerve carries visual information from the eye to the brain. ON occurs when the optic nerve becomes inflamed. The inflammation can cause vision loss in one or both of your eyes.

A combined set of clinical tests plus machine learning imaging analysis can enhance diagnosis of visual system changes in chronic mild traumatic brain injuries ... Participants with a larger optic ...

While the central nervous system is comprised of the brain ... nerve degeneration or peripheral nerve damage," Saito-Diaz added. "Despite this, there are major gaps in the knowledge of human ...