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Secrets of the Brain (Season 1)

10 episodes 97%4KCC

Extraordinary minds reveal how memory can be sharpened, fooled, or transformed.

Neuroscientist Dr. Jack Lewis investigates unusual neurological conditions to uncover how the brain really works. Across the season, you will meet people with remarkable abilities and surprising challenges, from near-total autobiographical recall to sensations the brain can invent or distort. Sign up to explore the science behind memory, perception, language, and creativity through vivid human stories.

Episode guide

10 episodes
1
1Memory
Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.
48 min
2
2Faces
Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.
48 min
3
3Phantom Limb
Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.
48 min
4
4Seeing is Believing
Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.
48 min
5
5Time
Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.
48 min
6
6The Senses
Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.
48 min
7
7Pain & Fear
Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.
48 min
8
8Creativity
Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.
48 min
9
9Sleep
Jack meets two people who can't stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.
48 min
10
10Language
Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.
48 min
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