About the Authors

Shunya Nakane

Contributed equally to this work with: Shunya Nakane, Osamu Higuchi

nakaneshunya@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, Nagasaki Kawatana Medical Center, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Neurology, Nagasaki Kawatana Medical Center, Nagasaki, Japan

Osamu Higuchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Shunya Nakane, Osamu Higuchi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, Nagasaki Kawatana Medical Center, Nagasaki, Japan

Michiaki Koga

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Takashi Kanda

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Kenya Murata

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Takashi Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Joetsu General Hospital, Niigata, Japan

Hiroko Kurono

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Saiseikai Kanagawa Prefecture Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

Masanari Kunimoto

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Saiseikai Kanagawa Prefecture Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

Ken-ichi Kaida

Affiliation Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan

Akihiro Mukaino

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Neurology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Waka Sakai

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Nagasaki Kawatana Medical Center, Nagasaki, Japan

Yasuhiro Maeda

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Nagasaki Kawatana Medical Center, Nagasaki, Japan

Hidenori Matsuo

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Nagasaki Kawatana Medical Center, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN OH. Performed the experiments: OH AM YM. Analyzed the data: SN OH HM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SN M. Koga TK KM TS HK M. Kunimoto MH KK AM WS. Wrote the paper: SN OH HM.