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Season 1

  • S01E01 Memory

    • May 20, 2016
    • Insight TV

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

  • S01E02 Faces

    • May 27, 2016
    • Insight TV

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

  • S01E03 Phantom Limb

    • June 3, 2016
    • Insight TV

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

  • S01E04 Seeing Is Believing

    • June 10, 2016
    • Insight TV

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

  • S01E05 Time

    • June 17, 2016
    • Insight TV

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

  • S01E06 The Senses

    • June 24, 2016
    • Insight TV

    Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

  • S01E07 Pain & Fear

    • July 1, 2016
    • Insight TV

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

  • S01E08 Creativity

    • July 8, 2016
    • Insight TV

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

  • S01E09 Sleep

    • July 15, 2016
    • Insight TV

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

  • S01E10 Language

    • July 22, 2016
    • Insight TV

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

Season 2

  • S02E01 Lying

    • September 1, 2017
    • Insight TV

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

  • S02E02 Risk

    • September 8, 2017
    • Insight TV

    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?

  • S02E03 Plasticity

    • September 15, 2017
    • Insight TV

    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.

  • S02E04 Hypnosis

    • September 22, 2017
    • Insight TV

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

  • S02E05 Genius

    • September 29, 2017
    • Insight TV

    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.

  • S02E06 Cyborg

    • October 6, 2017
    • Insight TV

    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.

  • S02E07 Music

    • October 13, 2017
    • Insight TV

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

  • S02E08 Empathy

    • October 20, 2017
    • Insight TV

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

  • S02E09 Gut

    • October 27, 2017
    • Insight TV

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

  • S02E10 Twins

    • November 3, 2017
    • Insight TV

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