About the Authors

Sarah Stricker

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Stricker, Timm Oberwahrenbrock

sarah.stricker@charite.de

Affiliation Klinik für Neurologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Timm Oberwahrenbrock

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Stricker, Timm Oberwahrenbrock

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center and Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Hanna Zimmermann

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center and Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Jan Schroeter

Affiliation Klinik für Augenheilkunde, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Matthias Endres

Affiliation Klinik für Neurologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Alexander U. Brandt

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center and Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Friedemann Paul

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center and Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS AUB FP. Performed the experiments: SS TO HZ. Analyzed the data: TO AUB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ME AUB FP. Wrote the paper: SS TO JS. Patient recruitment: SS. Financial and logistic resources: FP. Manuscript review: JS ME AUB FP.