Secrets of the Brain

Secrets of the Brain

2016
1 Season
5.0
Documentary

Neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions that give us a fascinating insight into how our brains work.

Episodes

Memory
E1Apr 4, 2016

Memory

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

Faces
E2Apr 11, 2016

Faces

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

Phantom Limb
E3Apr 18, 2016

Phantom Limb

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

Seeing Is Believing
E4Apr 25, 2016

Seeing Is Believing

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

Time
E5May 2, 2016

Time

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

The Senses
E6May 9, 2016

The Senses

Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

Pain & Fear
E7May 16, 2016

Pain & Fear

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

Creativity
E8May 23, 2016

Creativity

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

Sleep
E9May 30, 2016

Sleep

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

Language
E10Jun 6, 2016

Language

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

Top Cast

Jack Lewis

Jack Lewis

Himself - Host