Name: Secrets of the Brain (Season 2)
Uploaded: 2017
Description: Neuroscientist Dr. Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions.

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.