About the Authors

Tobias Loddenkemper

Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Loddenkemper, Tanvir U. Syed

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tanvir U. Syed

Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Loddenkemper, Tanvir U. Syed

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sriram Ramgopal

Sriram.ramgopal@childrens.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Deepak Gulati

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sikawat Thanaviratananich

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sanjeev V. Kothare

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amer Alshekhlee

Affiliation Department of Neurology, St Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Mohamad Z. Koubeissi

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Neurology, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

TL serves on the Laboratory Accreditation Board for Long Term (Epilepsy and ICU) Monitoring (ABRET), performs Video EEG longterm monitoring, EEGs, and other electrophysiological studies at Children's Hospital Boston and bills for these procedures (20%). He has received investigator initiated research support from Eisai Inc. Dr. SK performs Video EEG longterm monitoring, EEGs, and other electrophysiological studies at Children's Hospital Boston and bills for these procedures. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Pediatric Neurology. Dr. MK is on the Speakers' Bureaus of UCB and Pfizer. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL TS SR DG ST SK AA MK. Performed the experiments: TS DG ST AA. Analyzed the data: TS DG ST AA. Wrote the paper: SR TL MK TS.