← Secrets of the Brain

Season 1

10 episodes · 2016

  1. 1Memory

    04 Apr 2016

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

  2. 2Faces

    11 Apr 2016

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

  3. 3Phantom Limb

    18 Apr 2016

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

  4. 4Seeing Is Believing

    25 Apr 2016

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

  5. 5Time

    02 May 2016

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

  6. 6The Senses

    09 May 2016

    Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

  7. 7Pain & Fear

    16 May 2016

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

  8. 8Creativity

    23 May 2016

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

  9. 9Sleep

    30 May 2016

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

  10. 10Languagefinale

    06 Jun 2016

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