Investigators examined the connection between amblyopia, components of the metabolic syndrome and individual cardiometabolic ...

The flow of electrical impulses is directed from the source of the pain along nerve fibers that connect to sensory neurons. Sensory neurons can also support complex movements like picking up utensils, ...

Background: Recent years, the use of optical molecular imaging (OMI) techniques guided nerve imaging has made significant progress. However, a comprehensive bibliometric analysis in this field is ...

Optic neuritis (ON) is an inflammation that damages your optic nerve. It can cause vision loss and pain when you move your eyes. As the inflammation goes away, your symptoms usually get better.

Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or 'pulse generator') which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The stimulator ...

Optical illusions are more than just captivating images that trick the eye—they are windows into how our minds perceive the world around us. These intriguing visuals, often designed to confuse ...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is an intensely painful condition in which the trigeminal, or fifth cranial nerve, becomes irritated. TN can be an early symptom of multiple sclerosis. People who have ...

These optical clocks are still being assessed, but already now, some are 100 times more accurate than cesium clocks. They will therefore become the future basis for the worldwide definition of the ...

When the German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse built the world’s first programmable computer in war time Berlin, it performed floating point arithmetic at a clock speed of between 5 and 10 Hz. The ...

To acquire optic nerve head parameters, a 3.4 mm diameter temporal-superior-nasal-inferior-temporal (TSNIT) circle was automatically positioned at the center of the optic disc. Circumpapillary retinal ...