Secrets of the Brain
★ 5 · 2016 · Documentary
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
1. MemoryJack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.
2. FacesJack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.
3. Phantom LimbJack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.
4. Seeing Is BelievingJack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.
5. TimeJack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.
6. The SensesJack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.
7. Pain & FearWim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.
8. CreativityJack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.
9. SleepJack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.
10. LanguageJack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.More Like This
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