Nightline Prime

ABC News launches a new primetime series, “Nightline Prime”, which premieres Thursday, August 19 with the first of four installments of Secrets of Your Mind: Why We Do What We Do. This marks “Nightline’s” first foray into primetime series.

In this series, “Nightline’s” anchors and producers explore the mystery and the science of the brain through a range of extraordinary case studies. The series also features the work of world renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Julian Bailes, of West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, and his patients. Each installment of Secrets of the Mind will focus on a different research area, including love’s impact on the brain, medical emergencies involving the brain, violence and the brain, and food and the brain.