Name: Secrets of the Brain
Released: 2015-10-14T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: David Eagleman

TV Show · Documentary

The Brain, presented by renowned neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Dr. David Eagleman, is a ground-breaking six one-hour part series that tells the story of the inner workings of the brain, taking viewers on a visually spectacular journey into why they feel and think the things they do.

2015 · 54m

Starring David Eagleman

EPISODE 1

What Is Reality?

Dr David Eagleman takes viewers on an extraordinary journey in "What is Reality?" He explores how the brain, locked in silence and darkness without direct access to the world, conjures up the rich and beautiful world we all take for granted.
EPISODE 2

What Makes Me?

"What Makes Me?" explores how we are our brains, how our personality, emotions, and memories are encoded as neural activity. The process of becoming someone continues through our lives. We change our brain, and our brain changes us.
EPISODE 3

Who Is in Control?

In "Who Is in Control?" Dr Eagleman explores the unconscious brain, and reveals that everything from our movements, to our decisions, to our behaviour is largely controlled and orchestrated by an invisible world of unconscious neural activity.
EPISODE 4

How Do I Decide?

In "How Do I Decide?" David Eagleman explores how the brain navigates the decisions we make every day, some conscious but many more are unconscious, including who we find attractive, who we vote for, and what we sense and perceive at any one time.
EPISODE 5

Why Do I Need You?

In "Why Do I Need You?" Dr David Eagleman explores how the brain relies on other brains to thrive and survive. This neural interdependence underpins our need to group together, and our ability to do the very best and the very worst of things to each other.
EPISODE 6

Who Will We Be?

In "Who Will We Be?" Dr Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks what's next for the human brain, and for our species. He reveals that in the future our descendents may be so different to us that we will be strangers to them.