Secrets of the Brain

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  1. Memory

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

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  2. Faces

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

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  3. Phantom Limb

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

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  4. Seeing Is Believing

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

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  5. Time

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

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  6. The Senses

  Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

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  7. Pain & Fear

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

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  8. Creativity

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

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  9. Sleep

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

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  10. Language

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

Cast

Jack Lewis

Himself - Host