Michel Le Van Quyen, neuroscientist, researcher at Inserm and specialist in medical imaging, looked at the virtues of silence on his life. Victim years ago of facial paralysis, he found himself temporarily deprived of speech.
To understand why his muteness and his convalescence outside the city did him so much good, the neuroscience researcher immersed himself in the mechanisms at work and produced a book, “Brain and Silence” (Flammarion 2019) The rest after this ad What are the effects of noise pollution on our health? Subscribe Already subscribed? To log in, click here.