Secrets of the Brain
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Jack Lewis
Top Cast
Jack Lewis
Himself - Host
Seasons
Season 1 (2016)
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10 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Memory
2016-04-04Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: Faces
2016-04-11Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 3: Phantom Limb
2016-04-18Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 4: Seeing Is Believing
2016-04-25Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 5: Time
2016-05-02Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 6: The Senses
2016-05-09Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 7: Pain & Fear
2016-05-16Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 8: Creativity
2016-05-23Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 9: Sleep
2016-05-30Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 10: Language
2016-06-06Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.
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