Optic Nerve
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| Genres | Alternative Comics |
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| No. of issues | 14 (as of 2019) |
| Publication date | 1991 |
| Creators | Adrian Tomine |
| Publishers | Drawn and Quarterly |
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| ID | 2169524 |
About Optic Nerve
Optic Nerve is a comic book series by cartoonist Adrian Tomine. Originally self-published by Tomine in 1991 as a series of mini-comics, the series has been published by Drawn and Quarterly since 1995. Tomine's style and subject matter are restrained and realistic. Many are set in Northern California.
US veteran gets world's first eye transplant
... During the surgery, doctors injected adult stem cells from the donor s bone marrow into the Optic Nerve to encourage its repair...
The mother bringing autism out of the dark in Iraq
... They are also blind due to the incomplete development of the brain s outer layer which affected their Optic Nerve...
World Cup: Songs help partially-sighted Wales fan enjoy games
... When a tumour appeared on his Optic Nerve, he lost 80% of his vision, but it could never affect his love of football, which he said was " from birth"...
Bionic eyes: Obsolete tech leaves patients in the dark
... An implanted electrode array behind the retina receives the stimulation patterns from the user s glasses and stimulates the eye by creating flashes of light that correspond to the video feed and which are sent by the implant to the Optic Nerve to create a kind of artificial vision...
Bionic eye tech aims to help blind people see
... The retina is the layer of light-sensitive cells at the back of the eye that convert light into electrical messages, sent to the brain via the Optic Nerve, and processed into what we see...
Space sleeping bag to solve astronauts' squashed eyeball disorder
... This in turn can lead to progressive flattening at the back of the eyeball, swelling of the Optic Nerve and vision impairment...
Teenager 'blind' from living off crisps and chips
... Left too long, however, the nerve fibres in the Optic Nerve die and the damage becomes permanent...
