According to a review of 61 studies of patients suffering from severely debilitating depression, a large majority of the patients reported that missing a night's sleep immediately lifted their depression. Yet sleep-deprivation is not used to treat depression even though the conventional treatments, which use drugs and electric shocks, often have serious side effects.
Which of the following, if true, best explains the fact that sleep-deprivation is not used as a treatment for depression?
For a small percentage of depressed patients, missing a night's sleep induces a temporary sense of euphoria.
Keeping depressed patients awake is more difficult than keeping awake people who are not depressed.
Prolonged loss of sleep can lead to temporary impairment of judgment comparable to that induced by consuming several ounces of alcohol.
The dramatic shifts in mood connected with sleep and wakefulness have not been traced to particular changes in brain chemistry.
Depression returns in full force as soon as the patient sleeps for even a few minutes.
trace sb/sth to sth,追踪到某人/某物至某地,如:
We finally traced him to an address in Chicago. 我们终于追查到他在芝加哥的一个地址。
The dramatic shifts in mood connected with sleep and wakefulness have not been traced to particular changes in brain chemistry.睡与不睡的情绪的转变并没有追踪到大脑中化学物质的变化。
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