About the Authors

Valery Golderman

Affiliation Laboratory for Neurological Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Israel

Efrat Shavit-Stein

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Israel

Ilia Tamarin

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Coagulation Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Israel

Yossi Rosman

Affiliations Surgeon General Headquarters, Israel Defense Force Medical Corps, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shai Shrot

Affiliations Surgeon General Headquarters, Israel Defense Force Medical Corps, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel, Department of radiology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC, United States of America

Nurit Rosenberg

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Coagulation Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Israel

Nicola Maggio

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicola Maggio, Joab Chapman, Arik Eisenkraft

‡ These authors are last authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Neurology, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Israel, Department of Neurology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Joab Chapman

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicola Maggio, Joab Chapman, Arik Eisenkraft

‡ These authors are last authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Neurology, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Israel, Department of Neurology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Robert and Martha Harden Chair in Mental and Neurological Diseases Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Arik Eisenkraft

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicola Maggio, Joab Chapman, Arik Eisenkraft

aizenkra@gmail.com

‡ These authors are last authors on this work.

Affiliations Surgeon General Headquarters, Israel Defense Force Medical Corps, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel, NBC Protection Division, IMoD, Hakyria, Tel Aviv, Israel, Institute for Research in Military Medicine, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This study was financed by a scientific grant of the Israel Defense Forces. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VG ESS YR SS NM JC AE. Data curation: VG ESS. Formal analysis: VG. Funding acquisition: YR SS NM JC AE. Investigation: VG ESS NM JC AE. Methodology: VG ESS IT NR NM JC AE. Project administration: ESS. Resources: NM JC AE. Supervision: NM JC AE. Validation: VG ESS. Visualization: VG. Writing – original draft: VG IT NR NM JC AE. Writing – review & editing: VG NM JC AE.