Episode 1
Meet the Brain
1h
A tour through the labyrinthine city of London; a metaphor for your brain and its numerous regions and intricate pathways.
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Brain Games
2011TV-G8 seasons7.6 / 10
Get ready to have your mind messed with! "Brain Games" is a groundbreaking series that uses interactive experiments, misdirection and tricks to demonstrate how our brains create the illusion of seamless reality through our memory, through our sensory perception, and how we focus our attention.
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Checked Sep 3, 2026
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Get ready to have your mind messed with! "Brain Games" is a groundbreaking series that uses interactive experiments, misdirection and tricks to demonstrate how our brains create the illusion of seamless reality through our memory, through our sensory perception, and how we focus our attention.
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Episode 2
The God Brain
1h
Jason Silva travels to Israel to explore “The God Brain.” New research has uncovered that believing in God may be hardwired in our brains.
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Episode 3
Brains Behaving Badly
1h
Host Jason Silva visits New Orleans, Louisiana, to explore the brain and bad behavior. A series of games and experiments demonstrate how the brain has an evolutionary predilection toward doing the wrong thing.
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Episode 4
Life of the Brain
1h
Everyone's brain changes throughout life, expanding and contracting, shifting points of views, adjusting perspectives - you wake up every day with a brand new brain. Host Jason Silva heads to the New Jersey Shore to show how the mind's point of view shifts over a lifetime.
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Episode 5
Super Senses
1h
There's no better place than New York City to mess with your mind. Host Jason Silva leads viewers through a series of games and experiments designed to show that the brain has far more than just five senses, and how each of these work together to influence interactions with the world.
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Episode 6
The Survivor Brain
1hfinale
Jason Silva meets several people in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who personify the word "survivor," and puts their brains to the test in a battery of challenges engineered to demonstrate what it takes to be a super survivor.
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More about Brain Games
Cast
Jason SilvaHimself - Host
Neil Patrick HarrisHimself - Host
Keegan-Michael KeyHimself - Host
Cara Santa MariaSelf
Kristen BellSelf
Dax ShepardSelf
Ted DansonSelf
Drew BreesSelfProduction details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Documentary
- Episodes
- 65
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
National GeographicUnited States- Atomic Entertainment
National GeographicUnited States
Themes
board gamebrain stimulationbrain traininggood brainmind gamesoptical illusionperceptionphotographic memory
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