About the Authors

Nicoletta Cera

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicoletta Cera, Stefano Delli Pizzi

n.cera@unich.it

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB), University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti, Chieti, Italy

Stefano Delli Pizzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicoletta Cera, Stefano Delli Pizzi

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB), University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti, Chieti, Italy

Ezio Domenico Di Pierro

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, Hospital “G. Mazzini”, Teramo, Italy

Francesco Gambi

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB), University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti, Chieti, Italy

Armando Tartaro

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB), University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti, Chieti, Italy

Carlo Vicentini

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, Hospital “G. Mazzini”, Teramo, Italy

Giuseppe Paradiso Galatioto

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, Hospital “G. Mazzini”, Teramo, Italy

Gian Luca Romani

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB), University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti, Chieti, Italy

Antonio Ferretti

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB), University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti, Chieti, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC AF EDD. Performed the experiments: NC EDD AF. Analyzed the data: SD NC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG AT. Wrote the paper: CV GPG GLR.