Michael Stevens steps out of his comfort zone to research and personally experience Ayahuasca, a brew of plants which contains Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris will measure Michael's brain activity along the way.
Michael Stevens investigates how and why different interrogation techniques work, and the ethics behind them. He delves into truth serums, the good cop-bad cop power dynamic, and lie detectors.
In a world with an ever-growing tech industry, Michael Stevens tries to find out what effect technology has on our brains. In this experiment he tests what just 10 days of gaming does to things like our spatial memory.
The power of suggestion is something we've been curious about for a while and in this release of the series 'Mind Field' it is time to shine the light on this subject.
Michael travels to London to meet a blind, autistic savant with astonishing musical abilities, and volunteers to have his brain's function temporarily disrupted at UCLA's Neuromodulation Lab.
Michael explores how electricity can be used to move cockroaches, control other peoples' limbs, restore motion to people who are paralyzed and even read peoples' minds.
