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 ==== The Optic Chiasma ==== ==== The Optic Chiasma ====
  
-The optic chiasm is an X-shaped structure created through the crossing of the brain's optic nerves. The optic nerve connects the eye to the brain. The optic chiasm is believed to be a turning point in evolution for biologists. Crossing and uncrossing optic nerve fibers travelling through the optic chiasm are believed to have evolved in such a way to help with binocular vision and eye-hand coordination. Damage to this area may cause partial or total blindness.+The optic chiasm[(Optic_chiasm>Optic chiasm[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_chiasm|Wikipedia]])] is an X-shaped structure created through the crossing of the brain's optic nerves. The optic nerve connects the eye to the brain. The optic chiasm is believed to be a turning point in evolution for biologists. Crossing and uncrossing optic nerve fibers travelling through the optic chiasm are believed to have evolved in such a way to help with binocular vision and eye-hand coordination. Damage to this area may cause partial or total blindness.
  
-==== Anatomy of The Optic Chiasm ==== +==== Anatomy of The Optic Chiasm ==== 
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 +<figure>{{:optical-transformations.png?200  | Transformations of the visual field toward the visual map on the primary visual cortex in vertebrates.}}<caption>[[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Optical-transformations.png)|Marc de Lussanet]] „Optical-transformations“ [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en| CC-BY-SA-4.0]]</caption> 
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 +Nerve fibers from half of each retina at the optic chiasm cross over to the brain's opposite side. The other half of the retina's fibers travel to the same part of the brain. Each half of the brain gets visual signals from both eyes ' visual areas because of this intersection.
  
-Nerve fibres from half of each retina at the optic chiasm cross over to the brain's opposite side. The other half of the retina's fibres travel to the same part of the brain. Each half of the brain gets visual signals from both eyes ' visual areas because of this intersection.+The optic chiasm stretches at the level of the caudal border of the suprachiasmatic nucleus from the ventral surface of the caudal portion of the pre-optic area to the hypothalamus. The optic chiasm straddles the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the third ventricle instantly. 
  
-The optic chiasm stretches at the level of the caudal border of the suprachiasmatic nucleus from the ventral surface of the caudal portion of the pre-optic area to the hypothalamus. The optic chiasm straddles the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the third ventricle instantly. The optical tract passes to wrap around the hypothalamus and diencephalon laterally and caudally. The hypothalamus supraoptic nucleus surmounts the lateral edge of the optic tract. Besides, the optic tract lies medially between the lateral hypothalamus and the cerebral peduncle, and laterally the amygdala's medial nucleus.+The optical tract passes to wrap around the hypothalamus and diencephalon laterally and caudally. The hypothalamus supraoptic nucleus surmounts the lateral edge of the optic tract.  
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 +Besides, the optic tract lies medially between the lateral hypothalamus and the cerebral peduncle, and laterally the amygdala's medial nucleus.
  
 ==== Vision and The Optic Chiasm ==== ==== Vision and The Optic Chiasm ====
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 The optic chiasm plays a crucial role in visual input information retinotopic depiction and is situated above the pituitary gland, anterior to the pituitary stalk, and inferior to the hypothalamus. At optic chiasm stage, it is estimated that 53% of optic nerve axons, predominantly nasal hemiretine, decuse to join the strands of the contralateral temporal hemiretine forming the optic tract. This decussation is intended to combine visual input data from two halves of each retina receiving light from the same part of the visual field. The optic chiasm plays a crucial role in visual input information retinotopic depiction and is situated above the pituitary gland, anterior to the pituitary stalk, and inferior to the hypothalamus. At optic chiasm stage, it is estimated that 53% of optic nerve axons, predominantly nasal hemiretine, decuse to join the strands of the contralateral temporal hemiretine forming the optic tract. This decussation is intended to combine visual input data from two halves of each retina receiving light from the same part of the visual field.
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 +==== Chiasmal Syndromes ====
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 +This syndrome is caused by lesions of the optic chiasm, as the name implies. Chiasmal syndromes are the abnormalities of optic chiasm that can severely impair vision or even can cause blindness. The extent of vision loss is determined by the location of the lesion. 
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 +Chiasmal syndrome can be caused by either intrinsic or extrinsic factors.
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 +Extrinsic causes include the compression of the optic chiasm by an extrinsic factor such as a vascular aneurysm caused by a tumour such as pituitary adenoma, meningioma, etc. The most common cause of chiasmal syndrome is pituitary adenomas.
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 +Chiasma thickening is one of the intrinsic causes. Gliomas and multiple sclerosis are the most common intrinsic etiologies of chiasmal syndrome.
  
 ==== Pituitary Adenoma and The Optic Chiasm ==== ==== Pituitary Adenoma and The Optic Chiasm ====
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 When an illness or lesion affects the optic nerve before it hits the optic chiasm in the brain, the vision defect appears in one eye only and can change the whole field of the eye. Sometimes people who have a single defect do not realise it until one eye is covered. This is because each eye's overlapping visual fields will mask the deficiency when both eyes are open. If the disease affects the optic tract after the chiasm, in both eyes, the person will have a vision defect, but the defect will alter the same visual field half. When an illness or lesion affects the optic nerve before it hits the optic chiasm in the brain, the vision defect appears in one eye only and can change the whole field of the eye. Sometimes people who have a single defect do not realise it until one eye is covered. This is because each eye's overlapping visual fields will mask the deficiency when both eyes are open. If the disease affects the optic tract after the chiasm, in both eyes, the person will have a vision defect, but the defect will alter the same visual field half.
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