About the Authors

Rita De Gasperi

Affiliations VA RR&D Service National Center for the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury, James J. Peters Medical Center, Bronx, New York, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

Zachary A. Graham

Affiliations VA RR&D Service National Center for the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury, James J. Peters Medical Center, Bronx, New York, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

Lauren M. Harlow

Affiliation VA RR&D Service National Center for the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury, James J. Peters Medical Center, Bronx, New York

William A. Bauman

Affiliations VA RR&D Service National Center for the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury, James J. Peters Medical Center, Bronx, New York, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

Weiping Qin

Affiliations VA RR&D Service National Center for the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury, James J. Peters Medical Center, Bronx, New York, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

Christopher P. Cardozo

chris.cardozo@mssm.edu

Affiliations VA RR&D Service National Center for the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury, James J. Peters Medical Center, Bronx, New York, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, Department of Pharmacologic Science Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exists.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RDG ZAG LH WAB WQ CPC. Data curation: RDG ZAG CPC. Formal analysis: RDG ZAG WQ CPC. Funding acquisition: WAB. Investigation: RDG ZAG LH CPC. Methodology: RDG ZAG LH WAB WQ CPC. Project administration: CPC. Resources: WAB WQ CPC. Supervision: WQ WAB CPC. Validation: RDG ZAG LH WAB WQ CPC. Visualization: RDG ZAG LH CPC. Writing – original draft: RDG ZAG CPC. Writing – review & editing: RDG ZAG WAB CPC.