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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 dedicated to speech, known as Brocaâs area. The memory of the trauma rendered him speechless. Only after therapy, during which van der Kolk helped the man give words to the pain, did the later images show brain activity in the language center. ....