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The Nature of Things — Episode 1: Me, My Brain And I Unmasking The Mystery of the Conscious Mind

Episode 1 of 17 · Season 42
You are watching the episode Me, My Brain And I Unmasking The Mystery of the Conscious Mind Bob thinks but doesn't feel. Christina feels but has trouble thinking. Virginia can neither think or feel as she's pulled down into a spiral of darkness that zaps her very will to survive. Kent lives within a 20-minute time span, unable to remember his past or plan for his future. Each of these people has had an injury to a part of the brain called the frontal lobes and their stories, told in Me, My Brain And I, are helping neuroscientists unravel the mystery of what makes us distinctly human.

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Serie: The Nature of Things

Air Date: 2001-10-02

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