S01E01 Memory
Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.
Secrets of the Brain
S01E09: Sleep
Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.
Overview
Neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis goes in search of people with unusual neurological conditions that give us a fascinating insight into how our brains work.
Episodes
S01E02 Faces
Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.
S01E03 Phantom Limb
Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.
S01E04 Seeing Is Believing
Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.
S01E05 Time
Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.
S01E06 The Senses
Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.
S01E07 Pain & Fear
Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.
S01E08 Creativity
Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.
S01E09 Sleep
Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.
S01E10 Language
Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.
Cast
Jack Lewis
Himself - Host
