Trauma Memory
When blockage occurs, it appears to make an individual vulnerable to having laid down the elements of implicit memory(Mental models, behaviors, images and emotions). Implicit memory involves parts of the brain that do not require conscious processing during encoding or retrieval." This form of memory is available in infancy and, when retrieved, it is not thought to carry an internal sensation that something is being recalled." {{Rp|51}}Implicit memory is the first layer of encoded memory to be laid down. The encoding literally shapes a child's architecture of the Self. {{Rp|55}}At 18 months old, the hippocampus develops and this region of the brain matures and begins to integrate the building blocks of implicit memory together to form explicit memory.■ Earliest form of memory.■ Devoid of the subjective internal experience of "recalling," of self, or time.■ Involves mental models and "priming."■ Focal attention is not required for encoding.■ Mediated via brain circuits involved in the initial encoding and independent of the medial temporal lobe/hippocampus. {{Rp|57}} in a non-integrated, continuous, and separated fashion that when retrieved can emerge into awareness, affecting someone without their knowledge and control.
*FlashbackA flashback is a reactivated traumatic memory experienced as intrusive thoughts, feelings, or images associated with past trauma, but lacking a sense of being from the past. {{Rp|30}} {{See also | Grounding techniques}} An unresolved trauma event will have made neural associations in the brain, and while encoding a memory there would have been a massive release of stress hormone, that will temporary shut down the normal integrative function of the hippocampus, leaving the individual feeling as if the past trauma event is occurring in the present.
*Dissociation If someone is capable of dissociating, they can put their focal attention on something other than a painful event that their body is going through.
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