About this season
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 (10)
1. Memory
Aired 4 April 2016
Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.
2. Faces
Aired 11 April 2016
Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.
3. Phantom Limb
Aired 18 April 2016
Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.
4. Seeing Is Believing
Aired 25 April 2016
Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.
5. Time
Aired 2 May 2016
Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.
6. The Senses
Aired 9 May 2016
Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.
7. Pain & Fear
Aired 16 May 2016
Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.
8. Creativity
Aired 23 May 2016
Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.
9. Sleep
Aired 30 May 2016
Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.
10. Language
Aired 6 June 2016
Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.