Neuroscientists studying the eye’s blind spot have found that brain cells in the primary visual cortex, or V1, fire even when ...

The human eye contains a blind spot at the back of the eye where the optic nerve and retinal blood enter and exit, but our ...

Our eyes could potentially be coaxed into a special repair mode above and beyond our natural self-healing abilities, according to a new study, thanks to the delivery of antibodies that trigger nerve ...

Connecting pieces of information by finding a common thread often takes glaucoma researchers in unexpected directions. Zinc is one such thread that joined together different experts at Boston Children ...

The aim of these two simultaneous studies was to investigate whether postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) increases retinal and optic nerve head (ONH) blood flow and protects ONH topography and the ...

Optain's portable robotic camera captures retinal images that help detect early-stage eye diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration. It can also assess ...

There’s an old saying, attributed to writers from Cicero to Shakespeare, that says the eyes are the windows to the soul. But it may be more accurate to say that your eyes, and in particular your ...

A common infection may reach the eye, trigger inflammation, and worsen memory loss linked to Alzheimer’s disease.