Deeply touched by a handshake on television – AD.nl

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He pulled two plastic gloves , the bucket put on the table and sure enough, there it was: a bunch of brains. No copy of plastic or glass, but a real human brain that a towel was carefully peeled. ,, It is in the water, of course. ”

Normally I would long since have switched to another channel. I’m not a fan of explicit images of all what is in our body. But this time I was fascinated watching. Because when you get to Professor Erik Scherder begins, zap unthinkable. Rarely someone so passionate, catchy, understandable and especially so reverently about his profession – our brain – when he heard talk Thursday night in DWDD University.

You forgive him thus immediately the somewhat childish sounding “you all look forward to?” in the beginning. And he put his hand to his ear supposedly able to listen to at home if I have hard ‘jaaaaa’ recall. With him is really something back there. It will likely be some dust in the main trigger that ensures that we as audiences on the edge of our seat will remain one.

In the 45 minutes that followed, Scherder sketched in very clear terms and with interesting examples the wonderful world in our heads. How special it is that we actually healthy people can shake hands. Know in what order we hear ordinary things to do. And can recognize a few strokes or a vase of flowers or a hare is meant.

And how in one fell swoop can be different. After a fall on the ice rink for example, as demonstrated Scherder using patient Ans. She walked that way 8 years ago a tear in her carotid artery on, resulting in a stroke. One arm since they can hardly use anymore, how she practices every day. They turned a rather exceptional case, because its course is affected. She did not hesitate to show it and also a joke.
Arms of another patient, Mr. Harris, did not remain paralyzed after a stroke. But he no longer remember in what order he must prepare a recipe. And how to cut meat. The video shown by Scherder was heartbreaking.

I felt after 45 minutes humble , another word I have not shot. And grateful that my brain just doing his job. The greatest fear I looked again at the beige mass was still openly on the table behind Scherder.
who was finalizing his college. ,, If I were now to Matthijs (presenter Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, ed.) Walk to give him a hand, I hope you feel in your heart: wow, it’s great that we can do this ”

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It was not a hand, but an embrace. ,, Touching. Magisterial, ” Van Nieuwkerk lesson summed up when two men unleashed another.
Usually I am often tired of his jubilation and superlatives in The World Keeps Turning. But this time he drove a centimeter. I sat with tears in my eyes.