“The scan revealed a meningioma, a tumor in a rare and dangerous location near my brain stem and left optic nerve. “I was in ...

In addition, they showed that a different strain of NF1 mice—one that does not normally develop brain tumors—formed optic gliomas after either optic nerve injury or traumatic brain injury.

There is a close connection between the eye and the brain. The retina and the optic nerve are important components of the ...

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 ...