About the Authors

Michael E. Ballard

Current address: Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America; VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, California, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Andy C. Dean

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mark A. Mandelkern

Affiliations VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Edythe D. London

elondon@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, 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: MEB ACD MAM EDL. Performed the experiments: ACD MAM. Analyzed the data: MEB MAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAM EDL. Wrote the paper: MEB ACD MAM EDL.