About the Authors

Nils C. Gassen

Contributed equally to this work with: Nils C. Gassen, Jakob Hartmann

ncgassen@mpipsykl.mpg.de (NCG); theorein@mpipsykl.mpg.de (TR)

Affiliation Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Jakob Hartmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Nils C. Gassen, Jakob Hartmann

Affiliation Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Jürgen Zschocke

Affiliation Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Jens Stepan

Affiliation Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Kathrin Hafner

Affiliation Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Andreas Zellner

Affiliation Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Thomas Kirmeier

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Lorenz Kollmannsberger

Affiliation Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Klaus V. Wagner

Affiliation Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Nina Dedic

Affiliation Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Georgia Balsevich

Affiliation Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Jan M. Deussing

Affiliation Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Stefan Kloiber

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Susanne Lucae

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Florian Holsboer

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Matthias Eder

Affiliation Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Manfred Uhr

Affiliation Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Marcus Ising

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Mathias V. Schmidt

MVS and TR are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Theo Rein

ncgassen@mpipsykl.mpg.de (NCG); theorein@mpipsykl.mpg.de (TR)

MVS and TR are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NCG JH JZ MVS TR. Performed the experiments: NCG JH JZ JS KH LK KVW ND GB AZ. Analyzed the data: NCG JH JZ JS SK SL FH ME MU MI MVS TR AZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMD TK FH. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: TR. Wrote the paper: NCG JH JZ MI MVS. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: NCG JH JZ JS TK KH AZ LK KVW ND GB JMD SK SL FH ME MU MI MVS TR. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: NCG JH JZ JS TK KH AZ LK KVW ND GB JMD SK SL FH ME MU MI MVS TR. Enrolled patients: SL SK.