About the Authors

Jean-G. Gehricke

jgehrick@uci.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, The Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Santa Ana, California, United States of America

Frithjof Kruggel

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Tanyaporn Thampipop

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, The Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Santa Ana, California, United States of America

Sharina Dyan Alejo

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, The Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Santa Ana, California, United States of America

Erik Tatos

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, The Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Santa Ana, California, United States of America

James Fallon

Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

L. Tugan Muftuler

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JGG FK. Data curation: FK. Formal analysis: FK JGG. Funding acquisition: JGG. Investigation: JGG ET. Methodology: JGG FK. Project administration: JGG TT. Resources: JGG LTM. Software: FK LTM. Supervision: JGG. Validation: FK JGG. Visualization: JGG FK. Writing – original draft: JGG. Writing – review & editing: JGG FK TT SDA ET LTM JF.