About the Authors

Marcel A. Kamp

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcel A. Kamp, Maxine Dibué

marcelalexander.kamp@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliations Department for Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany, Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, D-50931 Köln, Germany

Maxine Dibué

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcel A. Kamp, Maxine Dibué

Affiliations Department for Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany, Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, D-50931 Köln, Germany, Center of Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Robert-Koch-Str. 39, D-50931 Köln, Germany

Clemens Sommer

Affiliation Department for Neuropathology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Langenbeckstr. 1, D-55131 Mainz, Germany

Hans-Jakob Steiger

Affiliation Department for Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

Toni Schneider

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, D-50931 Köln, Germany, Center of Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Robert-Koch-Str. 39, D-50931 Köln, Germany

Daniel Hänggi

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department for Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

Prof. Hänggi is a scientific advisor for Edge Therapeutics, Inc. and Codman. The other authors report no conflict of interest concerning the materials or methods used in this study or the findings specified in this paper. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAK MD TS DH. Performed the experiments: MAK MD CS. Analyzed the data: MAK MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAK MD CS HJS TS DH. Wrote the paper: MAK MD CS HJS TS. DH.