First Among Equals Growing the Mind Episodes 4 and 5 of the amazing series focusing on the human brain. Its from 2000 I believe, but still holds up ok. All 6 episodes can be found on bittorrent.

Horizon takes viewers on an extraordinary journey into the human memory. From the woman who is having her most traumatic memories wiped by a pill, to the man with no memory, this film reveals how these remarkable human stories are transforming our understanding of this unique human ability.

Part 1: Get Smart. The first programme in the series uncovers what happens in our minds when we learn, remember and have original ideas. It explores what we can do to improve our ability to learn and manipulate knowledge, and shows how eating fish oils can boost our brain power. Professor Robert Winston looks at how memory can be ...

Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? What's your emotional intelligence? Can you create a work of art in ten minutes? BBC Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field - a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, ...

Episode 5. Delving into the most complex of our organs, we find out everything from why we get drunk (it isn’t the alcohol as such, it's all the fatty acids in our brain), and how the various segments control our different functions from brief recall, long term memory, learned behaviour, personality/consciousness, memory and developing ...

Excerpt from BBC's Human2.0, in which a monkey learns to control a robotic arm through connections directly tied to the monkey's brain..