Abstract
One of the most significant features in the present-day attitude toward motor disturbances is the gradual emancipation from the timehonored organic-functional dualism. For a long time, if even now one is entirely justified in using the past tense, the investigations in this phase of neuropsychiatry have centered about the arbitrary cleavage between the two components of this branch of medicine, the main efforts being concentrated on the detailed descriptive analysis of the symptoms characteristic of the one or the other. Tics, tremors, convulsions and the various forms of dyskinesias and akinesias have been associated in the mind of the physician with the one outstanding problem —that of the differentiation between the functional and the organic or between the domain of the psychiatrist and that of the neurologist. Paradoxically, the investigations that were undertaken primarily for the purpose of affording a clearer conception of these differentiations have resulted in a gradual
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