Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Editor's note: new facial nerve section and new editorial board member | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Open Access Editor s note new facial nerve section and new editorial board member Thomas Stamm Address Poliklinik fur Kieferorthopadie Universitatsklinikum Munster Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster Germany Email Thomas Stamm - stammt@ Published II March 2008 Head Face Medicine 2008 4 6 doi I746-I60X-4-6 Received 22 February 2008 Accepted II March 2008 This article is available from http content 4 I 6 2008 Stamm licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial As Editors of Head Face Medicine we are pleased to announce the timely addition of a new subspecialty Facial Nerve to the scope of our multi-disciplinary journal. The Journal Development Committee has decided to create this new section and the subspecialty s growing importance is reflected by the creation of a new editorial board position. Rainer Laskawi MD Professor of Otolaryngology at the ENT Department of the University of Gottingen has agreed to accept this new editorial board position. We are grateful to Professor Laskawi winner of the Ludwig Haymann Award of the German ENT Society for his willingness to offer his outstanding expertise to work with us for the benefit of the journal and the scientific community. Rainer Laskawi brings a wealth of experience to this new position. He experimentally studied the effects of peripheral nerve lesions mainly facial nerve on the central nervous system especially on the supranuclear brain structures such as the motor cortex. His research group found fundamental short time changes in the functional cortical reorganization following different types of facial nerve lesions. Using glial cell markers Laskawi and coworkers could .
