Secrets of the Brain

Episode 2

Faces

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

Episode 3

Phantom Limb

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

Episode 4

Seeing Is Believing

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

Episode 5

Time

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

Episode 6

The Senses

Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

Episode 7

Pain & Fear

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

Episode 8

Creativity

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

Episode 9

Sleep

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

Episode 10

Language

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