This international, multidisciplinary journal covers all aspects of neuromuscular disorders in childhood and adult life (including the muscular dystrophies, spinal muscular atrophies, hereditary neuropathies, congenital myopathies, myasthenias, myotonic syndromes, metabolic myopathies and inflammatory myopathies).
The Editors welcome original articles from all areas of the field:
• Clinical aspects, such as new clinical entities, case studies of interest, treatment, management and rehabilitation (including biomechanics, orthotic design and surgery).
• Basic scientific studies of relevance to the clinical syndromes, including advances in the fields of molecular biology and genetics.
• Studies of animal models relevant to the human diseases.
The journal is aimed at a wide range of clinicians, pathologists, associated paramedical professionals and clinical and basic scientists with an interest in the study of neuromuscular disorders.
In addition to original research papers, the journal also publishes reviews and mini-reviews, preliminary short communications and book reviews, and has editorial, correspondence and news sections. Reports on congresses and workshops, taking the form of a digested or very comprehensive commentary, pointing out some of the particular highlights in relation to the contributors and giving some detail of the area covered, important contributions and a list of participants, are also welcome.

original research papers
 reviews and mini-reviews
preliminary short communications
book reviews
editorial
correspondence
news sections

Editor-in-Chief
V. Dubowitz
UCL GOS Inst. of Child Health, Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH, London, England, UK
Editorial Assistant
J. Miller
UCL GOS Inst. of Child Health, Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH, London, England, UK, Fax: +44-20-7905 2832 Phone +44-20-7905 2111Email J. Miller
Executive Associate Editors
G.S. Butler-Browne
(Animal Models) Paris, France
R.D. Cohn
(Fast Track, Reviews) Baltimore, USA
A.G. Engel
Rochester, USA
D. Hilton-Jones
Oxford, UK
H. Jungbluth
London, UK
N.G. Laing
Nedlands, Australia
E. Mercuri
Rome, Italy
V. Nigro
Napoli, Italy
I. Nonaka
Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan
A. Oldfors
(Reviews) Göteborg, Sweden
B. Schoser
München, Germany
D. Shelton
(Veterinary) La Jolla, USA
B. Talim
(Case reports; Picture of the Month) Ankara, Turkey
B. Udd
Vasa, Finland
P. Van den Bergh
Brussels, Belgium
T. Voit
London, UK
Associate Editors
G. Meola
Milan, Italy
L. Merlini
Bologna, Italy
I. Nishino, MD, PhD
Tokyo, Japan
K. North
Melbourne, Australia
K. Nowak
Nedlands, Australia
W. Stenzel
Berlin, Germany
V. Straub
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
H. Topaloglu
Ankara, Turkey
Editorial Board
H. Amthor
Paris, France
C. Angelini
Padua, Italy
D. Beeson
Oxford, UK
E. Bertini
Rome, Italy
L. Bindoff
Bergen, Norway
G. Bonne (Gene Table)
Paris, France
A. Burghes
Columbus, Ohio, USA
P.F. Chinnery
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
A. De Luca
Bari, Italy
M. de Visser
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
G. Dickson
Egham, UK
S. DiMauro
New York, New York, USA
J. Dowling
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A. Ferlini
Ferrara, Italy
R.S. Finkel
Orlando, Florida, USA
K.M. Flanigan
Columbus, Ohio, USA
J. Florence
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
H.H. Goebel (+Historical)
Berlin, Germany
M. Goemans
Leuven, Belgium
Y.K. Hayashi
Tokyo, Japan
S.T. Iannaccone
Dallas, Texas, USA
J.C. Kaplan
Paris, France
M. Lammens
Edegem, Belgium
M. I. Leite
Oxford, UK
C. McDonald
Sacramento, California, USA
G.E. Morris
Shropshire, UK
F. Muntoni
London, England, UK
K. Nagaraju, PhD, DVM
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
C. Navarro
Vigo, Spain
M. Olivé
Barcelona, Spain
R. Orrell
London, England, UK
S. Paushkin
New York, New York, USA
L. Politano
Naples, Italy
R.C.M. Quinlivan
London, UK
M. Reilly
London, UK
V. Ricotti
London, UK
N.B. Romero
Paris, France
U.T. Rüegg
Lausanne, Switzerland
U. Schara
Essen, Germany
R. Schroeder
Erlangen, Germany
D. Selcen
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
C.A. Sewry
London, England, UK
M. Shy
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
C. Sumner
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
S. Takeda
Tokyo, Japan
G. Tasca
Rome, Italy
R. Taylor
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
A. Toscano
Messina, Italy
M. Tulinius
Göteborg, Sweden
C. Turner
London, UK
M. Vainzof
São Paulo, Brazil
S. van der Maarel
Leiden, The Netherlands
J. Vissing
Copenhagen, Denmark
N. Voermans
Nijmegen, Netherlands
K. Wahbi
Paris, France
C. C. Weihl
St Louis, Missouri, USA