Episode 1 of new BBC series <em>The Brain: A Secret History</em> is now up on iPlayer. It's a brief history of mind control which takes in Pavlov's dogs, MK Ultra and electroshock therapy, as well as some <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cywhb">live experimentation with psilocybin</a> by presenter and psychiatrist Michael Mosley, as part of a discussion about the potentially beneficial effects of hallucinogenic drugs.

You can watch the episode until 5 April <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xccs9">here</a>.

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