Secrets of the Brain - Episode Guide

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

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

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

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

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

Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

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

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

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

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

Dr Jack Lewis also meets an incredible man who woke from a coma to his brain producing a string of lies, he was confabulating.

Dr Jack meets extreme risk taker Matthew Adams. Will tests at the University of Cambridge show that Matthew has a different brain from non-risk taking Jack?

Dr Jack meets a man who has defied all odds by miraculously recovering from severe brain damage, after a car crash left him lying in a coma for three months.

In this episode we explore the science of persuasion and discover that even a hardened sceptic can be convinced – Dr Jack himself included.

In this episode, Dr Jack Lewis investigates the neuroscience behind genius. He meets a genuine genius, Sabrina Chevannes, a woman with an IQ of 178 at just 4.

Dr Jack meets David Rose who uses a new technology that doesn't work with his paralysed body – it actually taps directly into his mind.

Dr Jack is going to sing with a choir like no other. Many of the members cannot talk, but they can sing!

We meet an individual who has an extraordinary neurological condition, mirror touch synaesthesia, allows them to feel the exact sensation or emotion of another.

Jack meets a poker player who has won millions in high stakes international tournaments using his gut instincts.

Dr Jack Lewis is on a mission to understand why identical twins are such an asset to science from development in the womb onwards.