The World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases was established by the World Federation of Neurology in 1998. Membership of the Research Group is open to physicians with an interest in clinical or scientific aspects of motor neuron diseases, including ALS.

The journal Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is the official organ of this working group and publishes high quality clinical and laboratory research related to motor neuron disorders, and ALS in particular. The Editors encourage submission of original research, case reports and short reports on all aspects of ALS, including basic science, genetics, new treatments, clinical trials, epidemiology, clinical neurophysiology, and other clinical and scientific aspects.

The membership fee for the WFN group includes a subscription to the journal, both in online and in print edition, and provides full access to the reconfigured WFN ALS/MND website, which will include a members-only online facility for professional dialogue. Members will also receive prior notice of WFN sponsored meetings, including a half day scientific meeting before the International Symposium on ALS/MND.

Please return the application according to the address details on the form and also send an electronic copy of the form to the secretary-elect Prof.Orla Hardiman for approval - e-mail: orla@hardiman.net.

If you did not get the renewal note, please contact the Informa Healthcare Customer Service Center via e-mail: healthcare.society@informa.com. Note your full name and address, and possibly a previous invoice reference number if available.

To avail yourself of online access you must take the following steps:

1. To activate the online access to the journal, you need to first pay your membership fee for 2009.
2. Once this has been done, you should send an e-mail to healthcare.societies@informa.com with a request to activate your online account.
3. You will receive notice of account activation within 7 days.If you have asked for a new account to be set up, you will receive the user details for login.

Please note that existing subscribers must re-activate their access each year. This is easily made by sending an e-mail to healthcare.societies@informa.com. Note that the payment for the membership fee need to arrive before we can reactivate the account

If you already have user details, and have paid your membership fee, but you still do not have access to the journal) please contact the online support function: support@informaworld.com.

Once you are logged in, you can add alerts through this journal website. To add the alert to your account, click the letter icon to the upper right of the screen marked with 'Alert'. You will be prompted on the screen to add the alert to your account.