Brain Games

Join host Jason Silva in interactive games and experiments to explore your brain's capacity for compassion. Discover if you were born naughty or nice and explore the chances of finding a psychopath among your family and friends.

Stars: Jason Silva, Karen Wynn, Jim Coan
Director(s): Michael Nigro
Writer(s): Stillman Brown, Adam 'Tex' Davis, Jerry Kolber

Learn all about addictions and why some can actually be good for you. Find out why you can't stop checking your phone and why that awful pop song gets stuck in your head. And, discover one of the most addictive sounds in the world.

Stars: Jason Silva, Sri Sarma, Max Darwin
Director(s): Michael Nigro
Writer(s): Stillman Brown, Adam 'Tex' Davis, Jerry Kolber

Discover how language is the closest thing humans have to telepathy and how you communicate without words every day. Guest Sri Sarma, a biomedical-engineer from John Hopkins University, leads a discovery of language and how humans create meaning.

Stars: Jason Silva, Sri Sarma, Rowena Askins
Director(s): Michael Nigro
Writer(s): Rebecca Cameron, Adam 'Tex' Davis, Jerry Kolber

Nearly every choice you make involves some calculated risk. Explore how your brain evaluates risk in everyday situations and discover why we're all born as risk-takers. Learn to assess risk like your life depends on it, because it does.

Stars: Jason Silva, Eric Leclerc, Brady Barr
Director(s): Michael Nigro
Writer(s): Adam 'Tex' Davis, Jerry Kolber, Jason Odell Williams

Find out how the male brain and female brain differ when they are pitted against each other in games and experiments. Learn which gender is victorious in the battle of the sexes.

Stars: Jason Silva, Coren Apicella, George Wallace
Director(s): Michael Nigro
Writer(s): Adam 'Tex' Davis, Jerry Kolber, Jason Odell Williams

Learn about your superstition and why humans believe in things that have no basis in reality. Discover why your brain may be hardwired to be superstitious and if it's possible to read minds.

Stars: Jason Silva, Sri Sarma, Eric Leclerc
Director(s): Michael Nigro
Writer(s): Stillman Brown, Adam 'Tex' Davis, Jerry Kolber

Discover the brain's role in your choice of food and what makes you hungry. Through interactive games and experiments, you will learn why you overeat and whether taking comfort in comfort food is good for you.

Stars: Jason Silva, Rhoda Boone, Susan Carnell
Director(s): Michael Nigro
Writer(s): Adam 'Tex' Davis, Jerry Kolber

What if getting angry had less to do with what's going on around you, and more to do with what's going on inside your brain? Explore why your brain gets angry and what you can do about it.

Stars: Jason Silva, Eric Leclerc, Frans de Waal
Director(s): Michael Nigro
Writer(s): Adam 'Tex' Davis, Laila Kabbaj, Jerry Kolber

Have you ever noticed that life is a series of routines, done in the same order, day after day? Whether you realize it or not, your daily routine is really a pattern. Learn how, when processing the world, your brain is always filling in the blanks.

Stars: Jason Silva, Coren Apicella, Andrei Jikh
Director(s): Michael Nigro
Writer(s): Adam 'Tex' Davis, Jerry Kolber

The power of intuition--when you know something to be true without knowing why--is one of the mind's greatest mysteries. Test your intuition and learn how your brain makes decisions without you having to think about it.

Stars: Jason Silva, Jim Coan, Chris Curtis
Director(s): Michael Nigro
Writer(s): Stillman Brown, Adam 'Tex' Davis, Jerry Kolber