Studies have found beta - amyloid in tissue following traumatic brain injury and as evidence of optic nerve damage in shaken - baby syndrome. (sciencedaily.com)
A Boston neuroscientist hopes to deliver a ray of hope to the blind by bypassing eyes and optic nerves damaged by illness or head trauma and sending image information directly to the regions of the brain that process them. (scientificamerican.com)
Subject also suffers apparent optic nerve damage from SXSW - hottie - ogling (one can't look too long at the sun without consequences, after all). (epolitics.com)