World Glaucoma Week, to ‘save’ sight we protect the brain

Cerebral alterations along the entire optical pathway demonstrating the fact that there is a direct fil rouge between the eyes and the brain. And, in fact, some structural and functional changes, such as the thinning of the inner retinal layer caused by the degeneration typical of glaucoma, are already present in the brain well before visual field defects appear. This is demonstrated by a study published in the scientific journal Eye