Sleepiness. When your brain has a mind of its own

Sometimes comical but often tragic, Sleepiness takes an important part in our lives. First cause of leathal highway accidents, drowsiness invites itself in our work. What happens with our brain? Can we master sleepiness? By working on the sleep and especially on the functioning of awakening, researchers try to understand the biological and environmental mechanisms that maintain man at the top of his capacities. What if drowsiness was there to prove that we are not machines?

Selected at Pariscience 2012 - Middle School Jury's Prize
See the showing : Friday 05th October 2012 from 10h00 to 11h30