Sentences with phrase «about optic nerve»

«Although clinicians have known about optic nerve hypoplasia for some time, the nature of the pathology was not clearly understood,» said Konark Mukherjee, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.

«There's nothing special about the optic nerve.

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(CNN)- Christopher Lukasik was building shelves when a metal rod hit his eye, tearing about a third of his optic nerve fibers and leaving everybody from his doctors to his family wondering whether he would ever see again.

These differentially expressed microRNAs point the way toward finding more genes associated with glaucoma, more clues about how these glaucoma types each go about damaging our optic nerve and potential new points of intervention, the scientists say.

Ivermectin, the established drug which successfully treats the infection, is known to be effective against minor damage caused to the front of the eye by the worm, but until now scientists had very little clear evidence about the drug's role in preventing more serious effects of infection, in particular damage to the optic nerve.

«The brain at rest» is actually a hive of activity and what it's doing is trying to sort out information that comes in; I mean this is another, another thing that made Marcus Raichle curious about this, is we know, for instance, that six million bits of data go flowing in through your optic nerve from the environment around you, and then only 10,000 of those bits actually get to the brain's visual processing area and only a few hundred of those are involved in consciousness, and you know, the conscious processing associated with that visual activity.

In 2010, they decided to collaborate to learn about zinc's impact on retinal ganglion cells, which receive visual signals and form the optic nerve that delivers information to the brain.3