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The sleepiness that is a disease

Gert Jan Lammers, neurologist at the Leiden University Medical Center, is one of Europe's leading experts on narcolepsy and hypersomnias: sleepiness when it is not a choice but a condition.

World Sleep Forum · Monte Verità · Ascona, Switzerland · November 2025

The video

The video is in the making: it will arrive here.

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Who he is

A neurologist in Leiden, the Netherlands, Lammers has devoted his career to disorders of alertness, in particular narcolepsy, joining clinical care with international research on the mechanisms of sleep and wakefulness.

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Why his voice

His interview brings pathological sleepiness into the series: what it means to live - and to drive - when sleep arrives uninvited. Video and quotes are in the making: they will arrive here.

The source

Event
World Sleep Forum, Monte Verità - Ascona, Switzerland
Recorded
November 2025
Original language
English
Rights
In the making with the author.

The series

Eight international voices recorded at Monte Verità: four are online, the others in the making with their protagonists. The series grows voice by voice, directly on driveawake.ch.

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