NOVA: Secrets of the Mind (2001)
WGBH

Description

If you are the least bit curious on how the mind works and the infinite mysteries that it holds then this DVD is for you. Some of the fascinating things that scientists, psychologists and physcians have discovered about the inner workings of the brain is unfortunately the result of brain injured patients. These people are the subjects of this DVD. It concerns their weird symptomalogies after surviving a truamatic, mechanical head injury, all of them real interesting subject matters.

Tags

Brain, Neurology

Collected reviews and ratings

10 Amazon user reviews

A very interesting look at the human brain. Gives you some interesting theories on how the brain re-routes itself to make good on missing limbs and brain damage due to car accidents.
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7.0 New York Times | Sharon Winter

Nearly everything in this hour is couched in drama, some of it emerging naturally from Dr. Ramachandran's investigations, some of it artificially (and heavy-handedly) added by the documentary's producers. Their use of hokey music and camera angles seems to betray a lack of confidence in the audience's attention span.
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