Neuroscientist Dr. Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions.

Dr. Jack meets extreme risk-taker, Matthew Adams. Will tests at the University of Cambridge show that Matthew has a different brain from non-risk taking Jack?

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Risk

In this episode, Dr. Jack Lewis investigates the neuroscience behind the genius. He meets a genuine genius, Sabrina Chevannes, a woman with an IQ of 178 at just 4.

Genius

In this episode, we explore the science of persuasion and discover that even a hardened sceptic can be convinced, Dr. Jack himself included.

Hypnosis

Dr. Jack meets a poker player who has won millions in high-stakes international tournaments using his gut instincts.

Dr. Jack meets a man who has defied all odds by miraculously recovering from severe brain damage after a car crash left him lying in a coma for three months.

Plasticity

Dr. Jack Lewis is on a mission to understand why identical twins are such an asset to science from development in the womb onwards.

Twins

We meet an individual who has an extraordinary neurological condition, mirror-touch synaesthesia, allows them to feel the exact sensation or emotion of another.

Empathy

Dr Jack is going to sing with a choir like no other. Many of the members cannot talk, but they can sing!

Music

Dr. Jack meets David Rose who uses a new technology that doesn't work with his paralyzed body, it actually taps directly into his mind.

Cyborg

Dr. Jack Lewis also meets an incredible man who woke from a coma to his brain producing a string of lies, he was confabulating.