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TOPIC：ARGUMENT 72 - In measuring electrical activity in different parts of the brain, researchers found that people who describe themselves as generally happy have more activity in the left prefrontal lobe of their brains than do other people. Therefore, a medication for stimulating the left prefrontal lobe of the brain would be an effective treatment for clinical depression.
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According to the memo, the author makes a decision that stimulates the left prefrontal lobe of the brain would be effective to clinical depression. To support this decision the author cites that happy people have more activity in the left prefrontal lobe than others. Close scrutiny the fact, however, reveals that it lends credible support to the decision.

Firstly, the happiness’ people have more activity in the left prefrontal lobe than other is not necessarily indicate that the hospital should treat for clinical depression as stimulate their left prefrontal. The author doesn't give out why happy people have more activity in the left prefrontal lobe, maybe there have other reasons lead to the activity, such as stimulate by never or even coincidence. Without ruling out other effective reasons that could make the same results, the author can't convince me on the basis of that decision.

Secondly, even though that the more activity in the left prefrontal lobe is due to the happy people, not other possible reasons, the author contains no evidence to support his assumptions. Because the researchers survey such people who describe themselves as generally happy. There is no test or experiment that could testify these people are real happy. Maybe they just seem to be happy, but in fact, it is an external activity of clinical depression. The research based on the unreliable factors, it could not convince me to approve the author's decision.

Finally, the author doesn't indicate that stimulate the left prefrontal would be effective to the patients. Happy people result more activity in the left prefrontal lobe doesn’t mean more activity in the same prefrontal lobe could make patients feels happier. Such as that composers can write, but the one who can write is not a composer. The author also missed the feasibility of the suggested method. To make me agree with the decision, the author should indicate more evidence in testify the effect of the medication.

In sum up, the author gives out his decision on a quite unreliable fact, so that I could not agree with him. To bolster the decision the author must provide better evidence like that: 1. There is no other possible reasons would lead to the more activity in the left prefrontal lobe, only happy could. 2. The author should provide more reliable researches, not people who describe themselves as generally happy. 3. The author should better show some effective aspect of medication for stimulating the left prefrontal lobe to the clinical depression.

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