<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Colleagues:</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">The current issue of SCIENCE (3 June 2016, Vol 352, Issue 6290, pp. 1158-1161) features a 4-page story on the Rutgers/Al-Quds Brain Research Exchange, the Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative, and Rutgers University-Newark, entitled</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><b class="">"Peace of Mind: A young Palestinian neuroscientist hopes to create a research oasis in the West Bank that transcends politics."</b></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">It profiles my former graduate student, Mohammad Herzallah, and describes our collaborative and interdisciplinary international research and educational programs in the Palestinian West Bank, focussing on clinical depression and the cognitive neuroscience of learning, generalization, and decision making. The story reviews some of our recent NIH-funded longitudinal studies of the cognitive profiles of medication-naive patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and how these cognitive profiles that characterize reward-based feedback learning and generalization will change once these patients are placed on SSRI antidepressants. Of particular interest is the possibility that the subset of medication-naive MDD patients who later go on to be SSRI-responding (i.e., finding psychiatric symptom relief from the anti-depressants) may show different cognitive profiles, a priori, than those who subsequently do not respond to SSRIs. If so, then cognitive profiles may help us identify clinically relevant subtypes of Major Depressive Disorder.</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">See the story at</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6290/1158.full" class="">http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6290/1158.full</a></div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px" class=""><img style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=abW9oYW1tYWQubS5oZXJ6YWxsYWhAZ21haWwuY29t&type=zerocontent&guid=f8be8932-7a1e-423d-9309-cf569e723b15" class=""><font color="#ffffff" size="1" class="">ᐧ</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">- Mark Gluck</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#800080">___________________________________</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3b1a80">Dr. Mark A. Gluck, Professor </font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" color="#3b1a80"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3b1a80"><font face="Arial" size="1" class="">Rutgers University </font><font face="Arial" size="1" class="">—</font><font face="Arial" size="1" class=""> Newark </font></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" color="#3b1a80"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">197 University Ave. </span></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" color="#3b1a80"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Newark, New Jersey 07102 </span></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" color="#3b1a80"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Web: <a href="http://www.gluck.edu" class="">http://www.gluck.edu</a></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" color="#3b1a80"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Email: <a href="mailto:gluck@pavlov.rutgers.edu" class="">gluck@pavlov.rutgers.edu</a></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" color="#3b1a80"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ph: ( 973) 353-3298</span></font></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div>
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