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