Your eyes and brain aren't just close together-they're connected. Simply put, your retina and optic nerve are extensions of ...

This can include parts of the brain that perceive and recognize scents, as well as parts involved in memory. The optic nerve sends messages ... such as a brain tumor or a stroke, can also result ...

Cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF , is a clear, colorless liquid that plays a crucial role in maintaining the health and function of your central nervous s ...

A BLACKHEATH woman was diagnosed with life-threatening tuberculous meningitis after a visit to the opticians. For three years, 31-year-old support worker Chantel Isaac had been struggling with ...

In a hard-to-watch video, a healthy-looking 4-year-old boy lies on a bed as doctors lift his eyelids to watch his big brown eyes erratically swirl and roll backward. His head jerks, and his little ...

Glasgow University student Beau Johnston underwent surgery which removed a large chunk and went through eight rounds of ...

The presence of colour vision abnormalities, relative afferent pupillary defects, pale disc swelling and visual ... retinal vein by the swollen optic nerve could have predisposed to CRVO.

Indians tend to develop heart disease at a younger age and at lower body weights compared with Western populations. Hence, ...

When the optic nerve is inflamed, visual information to the brain is disrupted, resulting in visual disturbances ... for MS. Common side effects include mood changes, insomnia, swelling, headache, ...

Michelle Taschereau was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012 and now runs marathons in the hope of healing damage done ...

Medulloblastomas, brain tumors in children ... The origin of the tumor development are the precursor cells of highly specialized nerve cells, the so-called unipolar brush cells of the cerebellum ...