The results of Yu-Wai-Man and colleagues confirm the syndromic association of extraocular features with mitochondrial diseases affecting the optic nerve. The search for further genes involved in ...

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause slow, progressive damage to the optic nerve in the back of the eye, says Schultz. This growing damage is due to unsafe fluid buildup that causes pressure ...

Traumatic optic neuropathy is visual loss caused by trauma to the optic nerve. Injuries, classified as direct or indirect, are also characterized by location. Intracanalicular optic nerve injury ...

Doctors are raising awareness of a type of eating disorder after seeing a case of a 17-year-old left with permanent 'blind ...

It is the most common type of glaucoma, a set of eye diseases that affect the eye's optic nerve. The optic nerve is located at the back of the eye and sends visual messages to the brain.

Some common eye diseases are refractive errors, cataracts, optic nerve disorders like glaucoma, retinal d ...

Ask ophthalmologist Dr. Lauren Kaplan if eye exams are important and she will give a resounding “yes.” A medical doctor ...

The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...

But sometimes, one eye may have worse symptoms than the other. Common symptoms of thyroid eye disease include: In serious cases, excessive swelling can cause excess pressure on your eyes, resulting in ...

Glaucoma is a critical area of research within ophthalmology and vision sciences, as it stands as the second leading cause of ...