About the Authors

Nani Morgan

Affiliation Center for Integrative Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael R. Irwin

Affiliation Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mei Chung

Affiliation Nutrition/Infection Unit, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chenchen Wang

cwang2@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Affiliation Center for Integrative Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NM MRI CW. Analyzed the data: NM MC. Wrote the paper: NM MRI MC CW. Collected data: NM MC. Obtained funding for the study: CW.