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Secrets of the Brain

Season 1 · 10 episodes · Apr 4, 2016

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    Episode 1

    Memory

    Apr 4, 2016

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

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    Episode 2

    Faces

    Apr 11, 2016

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

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    Episode 3

    Phantom Limb

    Apr 18, 2016

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

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    Episode 4

    Seeing Is Believing

    Apr 25, 2016

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

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    Episode 5

    Time

    May 2, 2016

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

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    Episode 6

    The Senses

    May 9, 2016

    Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

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    Episode 7

    Pain & Fear

    May 16, 2016

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

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    Episode 8

    Creativity

    May 23, 2016

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

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    Episode 9

    Sleep

    May 30, 2016

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

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    Episode 10

    Language

    Jun 6, 2016

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