Memory and trauma the one most commonly affected by psychological trauma is long-term memory. Missing memories, changes to memory, intensified memories – all are cases of manipulations of long-term memory. Long-term memory is associated with many different areas of the brain including the hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus and hypothalamus, peripheral cortex and temporal cortex. The hippocampus and amygdala have been connected with transference of memory from short-term memory to long-term memory. Thalamus and hypothalamus, located in the forebrain, are part of the limbic system; they are responsible for regulating different hormones and emotional and physical reactions to situations, including emotional stress or trauma. The
Intermediate-term memory phase of long-term memory, respectively—thus demonstrating the presence of a form of memory that exists between working memory and long-term memory, which they referred to as "intermediate-term memory". Though the idea of intermediate-term memory has existed since the 1990s, Sutton "et al." introduced a novel theory for the neural correlates underlying intermediate-term memory in "Aplysia" in 2001, where they described it as the primary behavioral manifestation of intermediate-term facilitation. In 2001, Sutton and colleagues proposed that intermediate-term memory possesses the following three characteristics: Because intermediate-term memory does not involve transcription, it likely involves the translation of mRNA transcripts already present