Brain Games

2013 • National Geographic Channel
4.7
939 reviews
TV-PG
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Season 3 episodes (10)

1 Battle of the Ages
11/11/13
Explore your brain and how it doesn’t always act its age. Through a series of games and experiments, you'll discover how your daily routines might be aging you.
2 In Living Color
1/13/14
Is an apple actually red, or a leaf really green? Think again. With a series of interactive games and fascinating experiments, the shocking truth is revealed that color is just an illusion created by your brain. Find out how!
3 Laws of Attraction
1/13/14
Journey into the secrets of long-term relationships, and play along to discover what attracts two people together beyond conscious control–including a shocking revelation of the one body part that often predicts compatibility.
4 Trust Me
1/20/14
Does it seem like you’re often guarding yourself from untrustworthy sources—and what is trust anyway? Through a series of fun and interactive games, you’ll learn to trust others a little more and your own brain a little less.
5 Stress Test
1/27/14
From traffic jams to screaming babies, angry bosses to bill payments, stress is inescapable—but it has a purpose. Through a series of interactive games and experiments, you’ll discover how stress works, why it’s a good thing, and how to manage it.
6 What's Going On?
1/27/14
Navigating this world is rough—even if it’s just finding the light switch in the morning. With these games and experiments, test your brain’s inherent sense of direction to find that you aren’t always aware of your surroundings—or even your body.
7 Retrain Your Brain
2/24/14
It’s easy to upgrade the electronics you rely on every day; can you do the same with your brain? Put your brain to the test with a series of interactive games and experiments that reveal hidden mental shortcuts, and how to give enhance it.
8 Mind Your Body
3/3/14
Your mind and body are connected in countless ways, and some are more mysterious than others. Discover how your mind and body sometimes work together like the best of friends–and how they sometimes betray each other like the worst of enemies.
9 In It To Win It
3/10/14
What's it about the human brain that makes you want to win—even at all costs? Through a series of competitions, play along as two teams duke it out. Learn what drives you to compete, why some are born competitors, and why it’s good for you.
10 Follow the Leader
3/17/14
Ever wonder why yawns are so contagious? Like it or not, much of your behavior is influence by copying others. Through a series of games and experiments, discover whether your brain is a born leader—or a born follower.

About this show

Are you ready for a truly mind-blowing television experience? Brain Games returns with twelve new episodes, each chock full of interactive games and experiments designed to mess with your mind and reveal the inner-workings of your brain. Host Jason Silva and Deception Specialist Apollo Robbins are teaming up with some of the world's foremost neuroscientists to get inside your head and show you what's going on in there.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
939 reviews
JannyPants
July 28, 2014
This should be mandatory viewing in U.S. High Schools on the chance it might help stimulate thinking in our future leaders --- as we continue to drop farther scholastically in comparison to other countries. Perhaps required again, in college in some sort of critical thinking course. Frankly, I would think any country would think this kind of information educational across age and occupational lines and presented in an entertaining format. Personally, I think there are myriad applications for these episodes depending upon Nat Geo's interest level.
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Christi Nash
September 17, 2014
There must be some pretty ignorant people watching tv if they think this show is so amazing. I watched anger and food and a lot of this stuff to me is common knowledge, but then again I went to college. I guess it's good if people learn somehow. Probably best for young people, like teens or older children.
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Max Evans
January 25, 2015
Pretty amazing how some people are so full of themselves to say this show isn't good because they "went to college." The way I see it is if you don't like it, pi** off. Don't get on your high horse and act like you're better than everyone else.
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