Special Issue: Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Management of Facial Nerve Disorders.

The impacts of facial nerve disorders on daily life, such as communication and also emotion recognition caused by different underlying conditions, are extremely relevant as well, and are intensively discussed in two articles which devote themselves to the subject of emotion recognition. In conclusion, we can see that the topic of facial nerve palsy offers a vast and dynamic spectrum of developments in the fields of causation, diagnostics, and therapy/rehabilitation. Although there has been a rapid increase in the number of new publications and studies in relation to the diagnostics, impacts and rehabilitation methods of facial nerve disorders, a general structure in evidence-based medicine is still difficult to establish. [Extracted from the article]