About the Authors

Vijayalakshmi Santhakumar

santhavi@njms.rutgers.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Pratap Meera

Contributed equally to this work with: Pratap Meera, Movses H. Karakossian

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Movses H. Karakossian

Contributed equally to this work with: Pratap Meera, Movses H. Karakossian

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Thomas S. Otis

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, 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: VS TSO. Performed the experiments: VS MHK PM. Analyzed the data: VS PM MHK. Wrote the paper: VS TSO.