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				Secrets of the Brain			


			

				
Secrets of the Brain


				

					5.0											
							IMDb tt7610486
						
										2016										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.

				

									

						
Cast

						

															

																		Jack Lewis
								

													

					

							

		


					

				

	

		
Episodes							10
					

			


	

				
			

									Memory
								1
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				Memory
								Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.			

		
				
			

									Faces
								2
								
			

			

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

		
				
			

									Phantom Limb
								3
								
			

			

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

		
				
			

									Seeing Is Believing
								4
								
			

			

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

		
				
			

									Time
								5
								
			

			

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

		
				
			

									The Senses
								6
								
			

			

				The Senses
								Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.			

		
				
			

									Pain & Fear
								7
								
			

			

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

		
				
			

									Creativity
								8
								
			

			

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

		
				
			

									Sleep
								9
								
			

			

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

		
				
			

									Language
								10
								
			

			

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

		
			



			

		
		

			

	
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