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Beautiful Minds - Voyage into the Brain

2006 1 season 3 eps TV-G

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45 min

S1 · E1 · Feb 20, 2006

Memory Masters Episode 1

Memory Masters: How Savants Store Information Where does memory come from? What causes us to remember some things and immediately forget some things? What “filter systems” ensure that we store some things and not others? Do we simply store all sensory impressions, as Prof. Gerhard Roth from the University of Bremen says? And if we save everything, how could we manage to open the secret chambers like a savant?

45 min

S1 · E2 · Feb 21, 2006

The Einstein Effect Episode 2

The Einstein Effect: Savants and Creativity The Dublin brain researcher Prof. Michael Fitzgerald supports the theory that outstanding creativity is very often linked to the malfunctions of autistic people. Einstein, Newton, Mozart and Beethoven, Fitzgerald says, were extremely gifted because their brains were wired incorrectly.

45 min

S1 · E3 · Feb 22, 2006

The Big Difference Episode 3

A Little Matter of Gender: Developmental Differences among Savants Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen, considered one of the world's most competent autism experts, is not afraid of making himself unpopular. Baron-Cohen's findings break with the dogma that men's and women's brains differ only slightly. In his opinion, the operating principle of the extremely male brain can produce geniuses and monsters - and savants.

3 episodes in Season 1

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Beautiful Minds: A Voyage Into The Brain, was a 2006 documentary on super-talented savants. Prof. Gerhard Roth of the University of Bremen in Germany, and Dr. Darold Treffert of the University of Wisconsin Medical School in USA introduced savants from different countries. They were Howard Potter, Orlando Serrell, Kim Peek, Matt Savage, Stephen Wiltshire, Temple Grandin, Alonzo Clemons, Christopher Taylor, and Rüdiger Gamm. It has been broadcast in more than 20 countries including Germany, France, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, New Zealand, and USA. The documentary consisted of three episodes: Episode 1: Memory Masters Episode 2: The Einstein Effect Episode 3: The Big Difference It was produced in 2006 by colourFIELD tell-a-vision, a German company.

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Total runtime 2h 15m · Episode length 45 min · Type Documentary

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Premiered

February 20, 2006

Final episode

February 22, 2006

Status

Ended

Network

Arte

Country

Germany · France

Type

Documentary

Episode length

45 min

Total runtime

2h 15m

Original language

German

Production

C

colourFIELD tell-a-vision

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Germany

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Original title

Expedition ins Gehirn

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