Secrets of the Brain(2016)

5.0

1 Seasons

Documentary

Overview

Neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions that give us a fascinating insight into how our brains work.

Episodes

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Memory

Ep 1

Memory

Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.

04/04/2016

Faces

Ep 2

Faces

Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.

11/04/2016

Phantom Limb

Ep 3

Phantom Limb

Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.

18/04/2016

Seeing Is Believing

Ep 4

Seeing Is Believing

Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.

25/04/2016

Time

Ep 5

Time

Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.

02/05/2016

The Senses

Ep 6

The Senses

Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

09/05/2016

Pain & Fear

Ep 7

Pain & Fear

Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.

16/05/2016

Creativity

Ep 8

Creativity

Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.

23/05/2016

Sleep

Ep 9

Sleep

Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.

30/05/2016

Language

Ep 10

Language

Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.

06/06/2016

Top Cast

Jack Lewis

Jack Lewis

Himself - Host

Show Info

StatusReturning Series

NetworkInsight TV

TypeDocumentary