At the optic chiasm axons make a key binary decision either to cross the chiasmal midline to innervate the contralateral optic tract or to remain uncrossed and innervate the ipsilateral optic tract.

In our visual system, the optic nerves normally combine at a place called the optic chiasm. Here half the fibers from each eye cross over to the opposite hemisphere. When this natural partition ...

The optic chiasm and infundibulum (pituitary stalk) could not be identified on coronal or sagittal images (Figure 1). Visual field on confrontation suggested lateral field deficits (bilateral ...

The chiastic pattern I’d come to love in Scripture also shows up in God’s design for aging. As a self-professed Bible nerd and a lover of symmetry, no discovery has made me happier than that ...

The pituitary stalk tapers superiorly (cranial) to inferiorly (caudal) and measures 3.3 mm at the level of the optic chiasm and 1.9 mm at its site of insertion into the pituitary gland.

(Left) T1-weighted with gadolinium sagittal MRI; (Right) T1-weighted with gadolinium coronal MRI. Note the large enhancing mass in the region of the sella that is growing up into and displacing the ...

Patients were considered for withdrawal of cabergoline only if the outer border of the tumor was 5 mm or more from the optic chiasm, without magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evidence of invasion ...

And the disciples heard it. And they came to Jerusalem. Rule 2: Catchwords or corresponding ideas often signal a chiasm. “Came” in the A lines, “fig tree/fig” in the Bs, and “leaf” and ...

In this week’s video, Rabbi Fohrman explores an incredible chiasm that encompasses more than 15 chapters, and asks, how do the pieces of this puzzle, especially the focal point at the center ...