Neuro ophthalmology is an exclusive subspeciality in ophthalmology that addresses a variety of disorders concerning the eye and the central nervous system. The optic nerve that arises from the back part of the eye as seen in the image connects the eye to the brain and hence, many diseases affect the eye and the brain simultaneously.
Symptoms
Neuroophthalmic symptoms are many and can include:
- Blurred vision/ Visual loss in one or both eyes which may be sudden in onset or progressive.
- Visual field defects of sudden onset or progressive.
- Double vision of sudden onset.
- Disorders of eye movement of sudden onset.
- Sudden onset of drooping of eyelids.
- Headache with symptoms of raised intracranial pressure like tinnitus, vomiting, transient visual blurring.
- Ocular movement disorders with gait abnormalities.
- Headache due to migraine, stress, cluster headache and closely related conditions.
- Transient visual loss.
- Facial paralysis.
- Abnormal involuntary movements of the eyes and face.
