The surgical centre isn’t a place. It’s a metaphor. For precision. For courage. For reverence. For knowing that everything ...

The optic chiasm, shaped liked the letter X, is named after the Greek letter chi (χ). Decussation of retinal fibres at the chiasm appears to be the evolutionary “default pathway” and the amount of ...

T1-weighted Gd-enhanced magnetic resonance images demonstrating a brightly enhancing optic pathway glioma involving the optic chiasm and hypothalamus with brainstem extension. DISCUSSION The patient ...

Optic nerve hypoplasia occurs when the optic nerve is underdeveloped. Learn more about this illness, including what to look for, what to expect, and more.

The optic chiasm is an X-shaped structure formed by the crossing of the optic nerves in the brain. The optic nerve connects the brain to the eye. To biologists, the optic chiasm is thought to be a ...

Optic Nerve Disorders. Optic Neuropathies. Damage to the optic nerves can cause pain and vision problems, most commonly in just one eye. ... The optic chiasm is the crossing of the optic nerves of the ...

The optic chiasm senses light and controls daily body rhythms. It is the first place in the brain the optic nerve touches. It took the severed nerve cells about six weeks to regrow to the optic ...

eLife Assessment. This study presents a valuable finding about the role of Perk (Protein kinase RNA-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase) and Atf4 (Activating Transcription Factor-4) in the integrated ...

Behind the optic chiasm, some of the nerve fibres from each eye form the optic tracts, which terminate in the thalamus (Dover et al, 2023). Optic radiations are then formed, which travel through the ...

The optic chiasm, optic tracts, and optic-nerve sheath complexes appeared normal. Diffuse heterogeneous thickening of the calvarium was present. Figure 2. MRI of the Head and Orbits.

Introduction: Optic nerve and chiasm hemangioblastomas are rare tumors, occurring sporadically or in the context of von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. They have only been portrayed in isolated case ...

Pituitary tumors affect the optic nerves primarily through physical compression. As the tumor grows, it may compress the optic chiasm, a critical structure directly above the pituitary gland.