Secrets of the Brain
series currently in production
Returning Series
Documentary
Seasons | 1
Episodes | 10
avg.Runtime | min
First EP | 2016-04-04
Last EP | 2016-06-06
Overview
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Neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions that give us a fascinating insight into how our brains work.
Created by
Produced by
Lambent Productions
Season List
season 1 || Season 1
Relesed on | 2016-04-04
1
Memory
2016-04-04
Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.
2
Faces
2016-04-11
Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.
3
Phantom Limb
2016-04-18
Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.
4
Seeing Is Believing
2016-04-25
Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.
5
Time
2016-05-02
Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.
6
The Senses
2016-05-09
Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.
7
Pain & Fear
2016-05-16
Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.
8
Creativity
2016-05-23
Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.
9
Sleep
2016-05-30
Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.
10
Language
2016-06-06
Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.
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