Depression correlates with literal loss of neuronal connections

Evidence

Thus depression, indeed, psychical suffering in general is associated with a diminution of neuronal connections (as if the concept of long-term depression had a literal sense). This diminution usually corresponds to an inhibition. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 161

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘long-term depression’ pun — neuroscience’s LTD renamed as actual depressive atrophy — is a conceptual bridge worth verifying.
• XREF: connects to: The brain’s layered structure and separate wanting-liking circuits explain human misery — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2325; A total collapse of everyday meaning echoes depression and neurological disorders — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 238