Apr 30, 2026 · 34 min · 25 segments
How can you tell whether changes in your vision are a normal part of aging or a sign that something’s wrong? On this episode of Aging Forward, Dr. John J. Chen breaks it down. He explains what…
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For those who are not familiar with neuro-ophthalmology, would you mind just talking about what that entails?
It's actually a hybrid between ophthalmology and neurology, and so half of neuro-ophthalmologists are actually ophthalmology trained, half are neurology trained.
And the diseases we see are things like multiple sclerosis, where it can cause inflammation in the optic nerve.
We'll see tumors that press on the optic nerve, tumors that press on the brain and cause your eyes to be, uh, misaligned.
So anything that's really neurologic connecting in with the eyes, that's essentially what we see.
For those who are not familiar with neuro-ophthalmology, would you mind just talking about what that entails?
It's actually a hybrid between ophthalmology and neurology, and so half of neuro-ophthalmologists are actually ophthalmology trained, half are neurology trained.
And the diseases we see are things like multiple sclerosis, where it can cause inflammation in the optic nerve.
We'll see tumors that press on the optic nerve, tumors that press on the brain and cause your eyes to be, uh, misaligned.
So anything that's really neurologic connecting in with the eyes, that's essentially what we see.
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