The oculomotor nerve is one of the 12 cranial nerves. These fibers play an important role in the nervous system, a collection of nerves that control essential bodily functions like breathing, your ...

Oculomotor nerve palsy affects how your eyes work together. When your eyes can’t work together correctly, it can cause double vision. Loss of eye focus and crossed eyes.

The oculomotor nerve also helps with involuntary functions of the eye. For example, the sphincter pupillae muscle automatically constricts the pupil to allow less light into the eye in bright ...

The oculomotor nerve has two different motor functions: muscle function and pupil response. Muscle function. Your oculomotor nerve provides motor function to four of the six muscles around your eyes.

It’s a problem with specific nerves in the brain that control the eyes -- most often, the third cranial, or oculomotor, nerve, which helps us move our eyes and raise our eyelids. In some cases, ...

Isolated third cranial nerve palsies in head trauma patients can be the result of direct or indirect damage to the oculomotor nerve. They are usually associated with severe head trauma. We reported a ...

Concussions can have lasting impacts on injured athletes, including compromised nerve function weeks after the initial trauma, according to a recent Penn State study.

The science behind the gesture. The reason you open your mouth when applying mascara is due to the proximity of the nerves ...

"An oculomotor nerve palsy with pupil involvement is often due to extrinsic compression by posterior communicating artery (PCoA) aneurysms. This is because when the nerve exits the midbrain, ...