Victim years ago of facial paralysis, Michel Le Van Quyen found himself temporarily deprived of speech.
Reduced to silence, with anguish at first, then happiness.
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).
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