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Secrets of the Brain (Season 2)

10 episodes 96%4KCC

Inside extraordinary brains, Dr. Jack Lewis reveals what risk, memory, and music uncover.

Neuroscientist Dr. Jack Lewis seeks out people with unusual neurological conditions, using vivid experiments and real-world encounters to probe how the brain shapes behavior. Across this season, you will explore risk-taking, persuasion, identity, music, and deception through surprising cases that make complex neuroscience feel immediate. Sign up to see ideas about the mind become gripping, human, and unforgettable.

Episode guide

10 episodes
1
1Risk
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?
48 min
2
2Genius
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.
48 min
3
3Hypnosis
In this episode, we explore the science of persuasion and discover that even a hardened sceptic can be convinced, Dr. Jack himself included.
48 min
4
4Gut
Dr. Jack meets a poker player who has won millions in high-stakes international tournaments using his gut instincts.
48 min
5
5Plasticity
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.
48 min
6
6Twins
Dr. Jack Lewis is on a mission to understand why identical twins are such an asset to science from development in the womb onwards.
48 min
7
7Empathy
We meet an individual who has an extraordinary neurological condition, mirror-touch synaesthesia, allows them to feel the exact sensation or emotion of another.
48 min
8
8Music
Dr Jack is going to sing with a choir like no other. Many of the members cannot talk, but they can sing!
48 min
9
9Cyborg
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.
48 min
10
10Lying
Dr. Jack Lewis also meets an incredible man who woke from a coma to his brain producing a string of lies, he was confabulating.
48 min
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