A neurological examination—sometimes described as a neuro exam—may involve evaluating cognitive functioning, motor strength and control, sensory function, gait (walking), cranial nerve testing ...

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.

The Ukrainian military once believed drones that communicate with their operators via fibre-optic links would not be necessary on the battlefield. However, that perspective has shifted with the ...

Russia is using fiber-optic drones to gain an advantage in the Ukraine war. These drones are harder to detect and jam than traditional drones. Ukrainian forces are adapting their tactics to ...

A Danish study has found that semaglutide, which controls blood glucose while ensuring weight loss, is associated with a higher risk of vision loss caused by a lack of blood circulation to the eyes ...

The reports of rare fusions in diffuse astrocytomas and other nonpilocytic lesions suggest that such molecular changes involving BRAF are very common in pilocytic astrocytomas, but are not ...

Another feature in the morphological assessment of the optic nerve head The optic nerve head has been defined as all areas inside the peripapillary scleral ring. Outside this ring in the parapapillary ...

I really didn’t expect what she had come out with.” Pixiebelle was diagnosed with a tumour, called a pilocytic astrocytoma, in June 2018 after Katie noticed she was losing sight in her right eye from ...

If the tumor affects the optic pathway ... grade 3 or 4). Most astrocytomas in children (80 percent) are low-grade. Sometimes they begin in the spine or spread there. There are four main types of ...