This volume opens by presenting an overview of the complex workings of the brain. The following six chapters are each based on an individual programme from the "Equinox" television series. "Immortality" looks at our abilities to regenerate cell growth and transplant brain cells; "Phantom Brains" is about the extraordinary phenomenon of phantom limbs; "Neuroscientist" investigates lies and deception; "Psychopaths" is an account of a project looking at psychopaths; "Tales of Madness" uses archive material to investigate the history of lobotomy; and "Mindreaders" explores the theory of the mind.