Horizon
The Secret World of Pain (2011x4)
Air date: Jan 31, 2011
Horizon reveals the latest research into one of the most mysterious and common human experiences - pain.
Breakthroughs have come from studying a remarkable woman in London who has felt no pain at all in her life, a man in the US who cut off his own arm to survive, and three generations of an Italian family who don't feel extremes of temperature.
We witness a new treatment that involves a pioneering computer game 'snow world' that contains the power to banish pain.
And we find how powerfully our moods and emotions shape what pain we feel.
- Premiered: Feb 1964
- Episodes: 1202
- Followers: 91
- Running
- BBC Two
- Thursday at 21