These can range from blurred vision to total blindness in one or both eyes or a specific change like an inability to recognize faces. An occipital lobe stroke can cause visual changes. If you have ...

Positioned at the rear of the cerebral cortex, the occipital lobes are the main centres for visual processing, such as the interpretation of colour, shape and distance. Located within the ...

Tumors near the optic nerve (optic glioma) can directly damage the nerve, leading to vision loss in one or both eyes. Additionally, tumors in the occipital lobe, the brain region responsible for ...

the parietal lobe, and the occipital lobe—with one of each on either half of the brain. The cerebral cortex is the thin, outermost layer of the cerebrum, extending across all the brain’s lobes.

When light enters your eyes, it is absorbed by special cells ... which relays information to the visual cortex in your occipital lobe. The visual cortex is responsible for processing and ...