BBC 4 - The Brain - Secret History Pt 1 - Mind Control (2011)

BBC Four on Thursday 6 January at 9.00pm

Dr Michael Mosley makes disturbing revelations about how far scientists were prepared to go with their theories and experiments on the brain in a deft new three-part BBC series exploring the history of experimental psychology and mind control.
Take the Russian biologist Ivan Pavlov (as in Pavlov’s dog), who experimented on children to see if reflexes could be conditioned, or the psychologist BF Skinner, who wanted his scientific methods on modifying behaviour in pigeons to be used on humans. Mosley looks, too, at how brainwashing was used on American PoWs during the Korean War, discusses the effects of electric shock treatment and explores how drugs, such as LSD, and even light can alter the mind.

Mosely meets survivors - both participants and scientists - of some of the key historical experiments, many of which were captured on film.

In tonight's first episode Mosely is playing guinea pig in a controlled lab experiment where he takes the class A hallucinogenic drug psilocybin (the active ingredient of magic mushrooms) to try to understand how its mind-bending properties can alter the brain.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8243987/The-Brain-a-Secret...

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