Secrets of the Brain
Neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions that give us a fascinating insight into how our brains work.
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Season 1
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E1
Memory
Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.
Apr 4, 2016 -
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E2
Faces
Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.
Apr 11, 2016 -
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E3
Phantom Limb
Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.
Apr 18, 2016 -
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E4
Seeing Is Believing
Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.
Apr 25, 2016 -
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E5
Time
Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.
May 2, 2016 -
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E6
The Senses
Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.
May 9, 2016 -
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E7
Pain & Fear
Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.
May 16, 2016 -
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E8
Creativity
Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.
May 23, 2016 -
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E9
Sleep
Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.
May 30, 2016 -
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E10
Language
Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.
Jun 6, 2016