About the Authors

Thomas A. Munro

thomas@munro.com

Affiliations McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Chemistry and Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Xi-Ping Huang

Affiliation National Institute of Mental Health Psychoactive Drug Screening Program and Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Carmela Inglese

Affiliation Dipartimento di Farmacia-Scienze del Farmaco, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

Maria Grazia Perrone

Affiliation Dipartimento di Farmacia-Scienze del Farmaco, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

Ashlee Van't Veer

Affiliations McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

F. Ivy Carroll

Affiliation Center for Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Cécile Béguin

Affiliations McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

William A. Carlezon Jr

Affiliations McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicola A. Colabufo

Affiliation Dipartimento di Farmacia-Scienze del Farmaco, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

Bruce M. Cohen

Affiliations McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bryan L. Roth

Affiliation National Institute of Mental Health Psychoactive Drug Screening Program and Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: CB, BMC, and WAC hold US patents on the use of κ ligands to treat mood disorders (6,528,518 and 7,629,475). RTI holds several US patents on the preparation and therapeutic use of JDTic, on which FIC is an author. 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: CB FIC WAC BMC NAC XPH CI MGP BLR AVV. Performed the experiments: XPH CI MGP NAC. Analyzed the data: XPH CI MGP NAC BLR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FIC. Wrote the paper: TAM.