Oculomotor nerve palsy is a nerve condition that affects your vision. It can lead to double vision and difficulties using both eyes together. A weakness in the oculomotor nerves causes this condition, ...

Why has this otherwise healthy 37-year-old been seeing double for the past year, and what caused his left eyelid to droop? That's the diagnostic challenge described by Newman Cheng, MBBS, of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 78-year-old woman with a medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diet-controlled type 2 diabetes, ...

DISTURBANCES of eye movements frequently confront the physician with puzzling diagnostic problems. First of all, the examiner must determine whether the abnormal function of eye muscles is the result ...

A 68-year-old man was diagnosed with ocular myasthenia gravis after presenting with double-vision and photophobia. Myasthenia gravis (MG) often begins with ocular symptoms, and sometimes those ...

Cranial neuropathy occurs when there is damage to the cranial nerves in the brain or brain stem. Depending on the affected cranial nerve, people may experience different symptoms, such as weakness on ...

Nat Clin Pract Neurol. 2007;3(6):331-340. Recent developments in our understanding of pain perception have shown that transmission of painful stimuli depends on activation of sodium channels that are ...

A 23 year-old man developed the abrupt onset of an explosive headache followed by nausea and vomiting. On exam, he had a right third nerve palsy. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - Posterior Communicating ...

Sixth nerve palsy, also known as abducens nerve palsy, is a disorder that affects eye movement. It’s caused by damage to the sixth cranial nerve or obstruction anywhere along its path from the ...

Care-seeking, clinical, and imaging factors can help identify non-idiopathic aetiologies of facial nerve palsy, some of which are treatable. "The findings of this retrospective study highlight the ...