Alchemica Posted June 12, 2011 Might be worth watching? "Michael Mosley reveals the risky psychological experiments, unorthodox treatments and cutting edge neuroscience that have marked our attempts to understand and manipulate the brain. In the first programme of this fascinating series, Michael traces how scientists set out to understand our emotions. He follows the shocking story of John B Watson's experiments on a five-month-old baby, and psychologist Harry Harlow’s horrific experiments on baby monkeys. Michael delves into the dark history of mind control in the second episode, revealing the theories and techniques that have been developed to invade another’s thoughts, alter their memory and even their belief systems. He finds out about the CIA project that aimed to control people’s minds, the 1950s sensory deprivation experiments that could ‘break a person in 24 hours’ and how modern day science is making us question our very notion of free will. In the final episode, Michael explores the treatments that have claimed to cure the sick brain - electric shock therapy, psycho-surgery and psycho-pharmacology. He takes a look at the discovery of anti-psychotic wonder drug chlorpromazine and watches a patient have half their brain removed to cure a rare form of epilepsy. Throughout the series Michael exposes the extraordinary and scarcely believable experiments that have taken place, all in the name of science. He subjects himself to some revealing tests and witnesses cutting edge investigations that are challenging the way we think about ourselves." Link Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
