Researches on animals have shown, that such widespread illness as the glaucoma, arises not in eyes, and in a brain. Disease precursory symptoms can be distinguished during brain scanning. This opening is capable in a root to change methods of preventive maintenance and illness treatment.
The glaucoma is the main reason of a loss of sight among inhabitants of Russia. Scientists considered long time, that the reason of origin of this illness is the ophthalmotonus which damages a retina and an optic nerve. In this connection, glaucoma treatment has been referred on depression of this pressure.

However now views of modern ophthalmology can change. During the research spent by experts of Eye institute at the Medical centre of University Vanderbilta in the USA, it was possible to find out, that the glaucoma is disease not an eye, and the central nervous system. It demands essentially other treatment.

"The science should change the views to the given illness, - the author of research doctor David Kalkins speaks. Is will demand global efforts. The information received by us opens the whole new direction in neurologic therapy".

In experiences over laboratory animals doctor Kalkins together with colleagues has found out, that the earliest mechanisms of the loss of sight bound to a glaucoma, communication deterioration between an optical nerve and a mesencephalon in which the information on sensory sensations received by us contains, such as sounds, heat, a cold, a pain and pressure is. In process of development of a glaucoma the optical nerve and a retina start to show degeneration signs, but the glaucoma in a brain arises.