The Monte Verità voices · coming
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.
The video
The video is in the making: it will arrive here.
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.
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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