About the Authors
- Georgios Tsivgoulis
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* E-mail: 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
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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
- Dimitris Mavridis
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Affiliations Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
- Nikolaos Grigoriadis
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Affiliation Second Department of Neurology, “AHEPA” University Hospital, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
- Efthymios Dardiotis
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Larissa, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
- Ioannis Heliopoulos
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Alexandroupolis University Hospital, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece
- Panagiotis Papathanasopoulos
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
- Theodoros Karapanayiotides
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Affiliation Second Department of Neurology, “AHEPA” University Hospital, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
- Constantinos Kilidireas
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Affiliation First Department of Neurology, “Eginition” Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Larissa, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
- Konstantinos Voumvourakis
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Affiliation Second Department of Neurology, “Attikon” Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- HELANI (Hellenic Academy of Neuroimmunology)
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¶The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
Dr. Tsivgoulis has received research support (not related to this project) by Teva Pharmaceutical Hellas, Genesis Pharma, Merck Serono and Novartis Hellas. Dr. Grigoriadis has received research support (not related to this project) by Biogen Idec, Novartis, TEVA, Merck Serono, and Genesis Pharma. Dr. Dardiotis has received research support (not related to this project) from Novartis Hellas SA, Genesis Pharma, Bayer Hellas AG, Genzyme, Teva and Merck-Serono. Dr. Dardiotis has also received research support (not related to this project) by Novartis. Dr. Papathanasopoulos has received research support (not related to this project) by Biogen Idec, Novartis, TEVA, Merck Serono, and Genesis Pharma. Dr. Voumvourakis has received research support (not related to this project) by Teva Pharmaceutical Hellas, Merck Serono, Genzyme, Genesis Pharma and Novartis Hellas. All authors have no other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, marketed products, etc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: GT AHK. Formal analysis: GT AHK DM. Investigation: GT AHK. Methodology: GT AHK DM. Project administration: GT. Resources: AHK DM. Software: AHK. Supervision: GT KV. Validation: GT DM. Visualization: GT AHK DM. Writing – original draft: GT AHK DM. Writing – review & editing: NG ED IH PP TK CK GMH KV.