How Should One React To Tragedy? | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman | 27 Nisan 5781 – April 8, 2021
Photo Credit: Jewish Press Dr. David Pelcovitz, professor of psychology and education at Yeshiva University, relates a story of his colleague Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a world-renowned trauma expert, showing him a picture of a manâs brain that was taken using an fMRI, a machine that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow in different brain regions. This particular image was taken while the man was having a flashback of being caught in the stairwell of the World Trade Center on 9/11. At that moment, there was absolutely no brain activity in the part of the brain dedicat...