The Conference was held in Hamilton, Ontario, on May 18-21 1993, and was the successor to the meetings in New York, Monaco, Cyprus and Mainz. Normally the conferences are held every two years but in this instance the event had been deferred to as not to clash with the 1992 International Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology in Jerusalem. The Hamilton meeting had been immediately preceded by the International Course on Single Fiber EMG and Other Special Techniques and over 150 registrants and faculty attended the two events. A noted absentee was Dr. Erik Stalberg (Uppsala), the pioneer of single fiber EMG, who was unexpectedly taken ill shortly before the meetings began; by the unanimous decision of the participants, both the International Course and the International Conference were dedicated to Dr. Stalberg.