About the Authors

Thomas Ritz

tritz@smu.edu (TR); michelle.bosquet@childrens.harvard.edu (MBE)

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Michelle Bosquet Enlow

tritz@smu.edu (TR); michelle.bosquet@childrens.harvard.edu (MBE)

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stefan M. Schulz

Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center (CHFC), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Robert Kitts

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John Staudenmayer

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rosalind J. Wright

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TR MBE RJW. Performed the experiments: MBE RK. Analyzed the data: TR MBE SMS JS RJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TR MBE SMS RK JS RJW. Wrote the paper: TR MBE SMS RK JS RJW.