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Secrets of the Brain

Season 1

2016 · 10 episodes

  1. 1. Memory

    2016-04-04

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

  2. 2. Faces

    2016-04-11

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

  3. 3. Phantom Limb

    2016-04-18

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

  4. 4. Seeing Is Believing

    2016-04-25

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

  5. 5. Time

    2016-05-02

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

  6. 6. The Senses

    2016-05-09

    Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

  7. 7. Pain & Fear

    2016-05-16

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

  8. 8. Creativity

    2016-05-23

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

  9. 9. Sleep

    2016-05-30

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

  10. 10. Language

    2016-06-06

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

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