Secrets of the Brain
62016•5.0/10
Documentary
Ratings
🎬TMDb
5.0/10(2)
Neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions that give us a fascinating insight into how our brains work.
Production
Lambent Productions
Language
EN
Status
Returning Series
First Aired
April 4, 2016
Last Aired
June 6, 2016
Networks
Insight TV
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season
E1
Memory
Air date: 2016-04-04
Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.
E2
Faces
Air date: 2016-04-11
Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.
E3
Phantom Limb
Air date: 2016-04-18
Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.
E4
Seeing Is Believing
Air date: 2016-04-25
Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.
E5
Time
Air date: 2016-05-02
Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.
E6
The Senses
Air date: 2016-05-09
Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.
E7
Pain & Fear
Air date: 2016-05-16
Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.
E8
Creativity
Air date: 2016-05-23
Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.
E9
Sleep
Air date: 2016-05-30
Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.
E10
Language
Air date: 2016-06-06
Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.
Cast
Jack Lewis
Himself - Host
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