About the Authors

Nicholas T. Van Dam

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Mary Sano

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Effie M. Mitsis

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Hillel T. Grossman

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Xiaosi Gu

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Yunsoo Park

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Patrick R. Hof

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Jin Fan

jin.fan@qc.cuny.edu

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Nicholas T. Van Dam, Effie M. Mitsis, Xiaosi Gu, Yunsoo Park, Hillel T. Grossman, Patrick R. Hof, & Jin Fan have no current competing interests to declare. Mary Sano acts as a consultant for Vital Images, Inc. and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Medivation, Inc. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS PRH JF. Performed the experiments: MS EMM HTG XG YP JF. Analyzed the data: NTVD JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NTVD JF. Wrote the paper: NTVD MS EMM HTG XG YP PRH JF.