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20161 Season10 EpisodesReturning SeriesSecrets of the Brain
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 & Seasons
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Season 1
10 EpisodesEP 01
01.Memory
2016-04-04
01.Memory
Aired 2016-04-04
Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.
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EP 02
02.Faces
2016-04-11
02.Faces
Aired 2016-04-11
Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.
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EP 03
03.Phantom Limb
2016-04-18
03.Phantom Limb
Aired 2016-04-18
Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.
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EP 04
04.Seeing Is Believing
2016-04-25
04.Seeing Is Believing
Aired 2016-04-25
Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.
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EP 05
05.Time
2016-05-02
05.Time
Aired 2016-05-02
Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.
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EP 06
06.The Senses
2016-05-09
06.The Senses
Aired 2016-05-09
Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.
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EP 07
07.Pain & Fear
2016-05-16
07.Pain & Fear
Aired 2016-05-16
Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.
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EP 08
08.Creativity
2016-05-23
08.Creativity
Aired 2016-05-23
Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.
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EP 09
09.Sleep
2016-05-30
09.Sleep
Aired 2016-05-30
Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.
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EP 10
10.Language
2016-06-06
10.Language
Aired 2016-06-06
Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.
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