About the Authors

Susan M. Meffert

susan.meffert@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Clare Henn-Haase

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas J. Metzler

Affiliation Mental Health Service, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Meng Qian

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Suzanne Best

Affiliation Graduate School of Education and Counseling, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Ayelet Hirschfeld

Affiliation Mental Health Service, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shannon McCaslin

Affiliation Dissemination and Training Division, National Center for PTSD, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Sabra Inslicht

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Mental Health Service, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Thomas C. Neylan

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Mental Health Service, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Charles R. Marmar

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CRM TCN. Performed the experiments: SMM. Analyzed the data: TJM MQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHH SB AH SM SI. Wrote the paper: SMM TJM.