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10. Twins
2017 - Season 2
Dr Jack Lewis is on a mission to understand why identical twins are such an asset to science from development in the womb onwards.
9. Gut
2017 - Season 2
Jack meets a poker player who has won millions in high stakes international tournaments using his gut instincts.
8. Empathy
2017 - Season 2
We meet an individual who has an extraordinary neurological condition, mirror touch synaesthesia, allows them to feel the exact sensation or emotion of another.
7. Music
2017 - Season 2
Dr Jack is going to sing with a choir like no other. Many of the members cannot talk, but they can sing!
6. Cyborg
2017 - Season 2
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.
5. Genius
2017 - Season 2
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.
4. Hypnosis
2017 - Season 2
In this episode we explore the science of persuasion and discover that even a hardened sceptic can be convinced – Dr Jack himself included.
3. Plasticity
2017 - Season 2
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.
2. Risk
2017 - Season 2
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?
1. Lying
2017 - Season 2
Dr Jack Lewis also meets an incredible man who woke from a coma to his brain producing a string of lies, he was confabulating.
