118. 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?

(A) For a small percentage of depressed patients, missing a night’s sleep induces a temporary sense of euphoria.

(B) Keeping depressed patients awake is more difficult than keeping awake people who are not depressed.

(C) Prolonged loss of sleep can lead to temporary impairment of judgment comparable to that induced by consuming several ounces of alcohol.

(D) The dramatic shifts in mood connected with sleep and wakefulness have not been traced to particular changes in brain chemistry.

(E) Depression returns in full force as soon as the patient sleeps for even a few minutes.

OG对ABCD的解释我没有明白。if sleep-deprivationcould be used as an effective treatment for severelydebilitating depression, the benefit derived would be so great that the occasional extra benefit of euphoria( choice A), the need for expending some extra effort ( choice B) the occasional drawback of impaired judgement(choice C), and the lack of thorough scientific understanding(choice D) would each be a comparatively insignificant consideration.

请帮忙解释一下。

“如果sleep-deprivation对治疗depression有效的话，ABCD中所提到的那些因素相对都可以不考虑。”

意思是如果S-D这个方法很奏效的话，即使存在ABCD中所提到的那些因素，这个方法还是可以被利用，还是很有价值的，不需要去考虑ABCD中提到的那些因素。也就是说，ABCD是提到了一些微不足道的细节，单就这些细节本身并不能阻碍S-D这个方法被广泛利用，必然是有更关键的因素使得这个方法不能用，比如E说的原因。