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All Episodes of Secrets of the Brain

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All Episodes of Secrets of the Brain

Neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions that give us a fascinating insight into how our brains work.
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Season 1

  • Memory
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    Memory

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/4/2016

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Faces
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    Faces

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2016

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Phantom Limb
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    Phantom Limb

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/18/2016

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Seeing Is Believing
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    Seeing Is Believing

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/25/2016

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Time
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    Time

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/2/2016

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Senses
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    The Senses

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/9/2016

    Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Pain & Fear
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    Pain & Fear

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/16/2016

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Creativity
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    Creativity

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/23/2016

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Sleep
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    Sleep

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/30/2016

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Language
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    Language

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/6/2016

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown