Horizon
Season 45 Episode 2 - Total Isolation
Psychologists subject six volunteers to a world without stimulation. For the first time in 40 years Horizon re-creates a controversial sensory deprivation experiment. Six ordinary people are taken to a nuclear bunker and left alone for 48 hours. Three subjects are left alone in dark, sound-proofed rooms, while the other three are given goggles and foam cuffs, while white noise is piped into their ears. The original experiments carried out in the 1950s and 60s by leading psychologist Prof Donald Hebb, was thought by many in the North American political and scientific establishment to be too cruel and were discontinued. Prof Ian Robbins, head of trauma psychology at St George's Hospital, Tooting, has been treating some of the British Guantanamo detainees and the victims of torture who come to the UK from across the world. Now he evaluates the volunteers as their brains undergo strange alterations.
Episodes in Season 45
How to Kill a Human Being
60 min
Total Isolation
60 min
What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity?
60 min
Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstasy?
60 min
How to Make Better Decisions
60 min
How to Live to be 101
60 min
Prof. Regan's Supermarket Secrets
60 min
Are we Alone in the Universe?
60 min
How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?
60 min
How Does Your Memory Work?
60 min
The President's Guide to Science
60 min
How Mad Are You? (1 of 2)
60 min
How Mad Are You? (2 of 2)
60 min
Jimmy's GM Food Fight
60 min
Do You Know What Time It Is?
60 min
Allergy Planet
60 min
Where's My Robot?
60 min
