About the Authors

Claudia Buss

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Buss, Sonja Entringer

cbuss@uci.edu (CB); or sentring@uci.edu (SE)

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Sonja Entringer

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Buss, Sonja Entringer

cbuss@uci.edu (CB); or sentring@uci.edu (SE)

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Elysia Poggi Davis

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Calvin J. Hobel

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

James M. Swanson

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Pathik D. Wadhwa

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Curt A. Sandman

Affiliation Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests to declare: James M. Swanson has served on the speaker's bureau, advisory board, or received travel honorarium from ALZA, Johnson & Johnson, UCB, Novartis, Cephalon, Noven and Shire. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB SE CAS EPD CJH. Performed the experiments: CB CAS EPD. Analyzed the data: CB SE JMS. Wrote the paper: CB SE PDW CAS.