About the Authors

Georgios Tsivgoulis

tsivgoulisgiorg@yahoo.gr

Affiliations Second Department of Neurology, “Attikon” Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Department of Neurology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, International Clinical Research Center, Department of Neurology, St. Anne's University Hospital in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Aristeidis H. Katsanos

Affiliations Second Department of Neurology, “Attikon” Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Nikolaos Grigoriadis

Affiliation Second Department of Neurology, “AHEPA” University Hospital, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece

Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Larissa, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Ioannis Heliopoulos

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Alexandroupolis University Hospital, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Panagiotis Papathanasopoulos

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece

Constantinos Kilidireas

Affiliation First Department of Neurology, “Eginition” Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Konstantinos Voumvourakis

Affiliation Second Department of Neurology, “Attikon” Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Efthimios Dardiotis

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Larissa, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

HELANI (Hellenic Academy of Neuroimmunology)

Membership of the Hellenic Academy of Neuroimmunology is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GT AHK ED. Performed the experiments: GT AHK. Analyzed the data: GT AHK. Wrote the paper: GT AHK NG GMH IH PP CK KV ED.