A clearly defined neuron type has been identified, along with its circuit in the retina in the pathophysiology of idiopathic congenital nystagmus. In a mouse model of the disease, which shows similar ...

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience researchers have overturned the long held view that congenital nystagmus, a condition where eyes make repetitive involuntary movements, is a brain disorder by ...

SEATTLE — Abnormal neural and vascular structures can be seen in the extraocular muscle tendons of patients with congenital nystagmus, according to a study presented here. “We found that neurovascular ...

Because the visual system is still developing in children, the consequences of missing ocular or vision abnormalities in these patients are profound, possibly resulting in a lifetime of disability.

AN association between congenital nystagmus and hypothyroidism has not to our knowledge been suggested in the medical literature. Four patients have been seen at the Massachusetts General Hospital in ...

CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, September 17, 2024 / EINPresswire.com / -- A significant scientific discovery has shed light on the cause of congenital nystagmus, a condition where the eyes move ...

Idiopathic congenital nystagmus (ICN) is a genetically heterogeneous eye movement disorder that causes a large proportion of childhood visual impairment. Here we describe a missense variant (p.L292P) ...

Fortunately, they had previously mapped the first autosomal dominant congenital motor nystagmus family to an 11.39-Mb region in 1q31.1 and q32.2. 4 This led them to narrow the most likely interval ...

Botond Roska and his group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) implicate a clearly defined neuron type and its circuit in the retina in the pathophysiology of idiopathic ...

New Research Points to Retinal Cause for Eye Movement Disorder... CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, September 17, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- A significant scientific discovery has shed light on the cause of ...