The Monte Verità voices · Overview
The forum in five minutes
Eight World Sleep Forum voices in a single narrative: from everyday risk to proof in court, all the way to shared guidelines. This is the map of the five-minute cut now in preparation.
The video
The five-minute cut is in preparation: it will arrive here with the authorisation of all interviewees.
A risk that concerns everyone
Not only people with a diagnosis: sleepiness at the wheel also grows out of anyone's short nights. It is where the eight voices begin.
The sleep we lack today
Sleep debt, circadian misalignment, caffeine, screens and stress: modern habits erode wakefulness before we even get into the car.
A complex state
Sleep is not a switch: it is an articulated biological and conscious state, which research measures with ever finer tools.
Fitness and responsibility
Who is fit to drive, and how a sleep attack can be reconstructed after the fact: retrospective proof is the hardest step for physicians and courts.
What judges need
The medical and forensic elements to collect and communicate: without a common language, assessment remains unequal from case to case.
The Monte Verità dialogue
The forum brings sleep medicine, legal medicine and law to the same table: it is why these eight voices met.
Towards shared guidelines
Recognising sleepiness, preventing it also through technology, judging it with common criteria: the direction set by the forum's eight voices.
The eight voices
- 01Simone GianiniACS Central PresidentVideo online
- 02Michael H. SilberNeurology · Mayo ClinicVideo online
- 03Carlos H. SchenckPsychiatry · University of MinnesotaVideo online
- 04Mauro ManconiSleep neurology · EOC, LuganoVideo online
- 05Pierre PhilipSleep medicine · University of BordeauxVideo online
- 06Francesca SiclariNeurology and dreams · NIN, AmsterdamVideo in preparation
- 07Gert Jan LammersNeurology · LUMC, LeidenVideo in preparation
- 08Raffaele FerriScientific Director · IRCCS Oasi, TroinaVideo in preparation
The source
- Event
- World Sleep Forum, Monte Verità - Ascona, Switzerland
- Recorded
- November 2025
- Voices
- Eight international interviewees
- Original languages
- Italian and English
- Rights
- Cut in preparation: publication with the authorisation of all interviewees.
The series
Eight international voices recorded at Monte Verità: five are online, the others in the making with their protagonists. The series grows voice by voice, directly on driveawake.ch.
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