Product: NOVA: Secrets of the Mind (2007)
Rating: 4.0
Brain stories
Interesting look at the brain and some of the unusual disorders which can occur in it. You can't help but to be drawn in by some of the first-hand stories of reinforced non-recognition of the familiar ("everything here has been replaced by an exact duplicate"), phantom pain from amputated limbs and blind eyes that see. The discussion by Dr. Ramachandran of these cases is absorbing and the computer animation showing what is going on in the brain is very helpful. Well worth watching!