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NEUROSIS AS ACAUSE OFSPEECHDISORDER. DR. ROBERTWEST, University of Wisconsin (by invitation).
Although one cannot say that neurosis is responsible for more disorders of speech than all other causes, it appears to be to blame for more disturbances of speech than any other single group of causative conditions. The chief reason for the prominence of neurosis as a pathogenic factor in the function of speech is to be found in the emotional coloration of neurosis.
The neurotic patient is unable to (or at least does not) exert the normal cerebral inhibition on the centers where emotional movements are subtended, viz., the thalamus and striate bodies. These emotional movements are not engaged in generally by all of the muscles of the body, but are more or less concentrated in the muscles of respiration, mastication and deglutition and in the superficial facial muscles. The only muscles of the groups