About the Authors

Fernando Gomez-Pinilla

fgomezpi@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California United States of America

Zhe Ying

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yumei Zhuang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FGP ZY. Performed the experiments: YMZ. Analyzed the data: ZY YMZ. Wrote the paper: FGP YZ.