About the Authors

Or Burstein

Contributed equally to this work with: Or Burstein, Motty Franko

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Behavioral Science, The Academic College Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University, Raanana, Israel

Motty Franko

Contributed equally to this work with: Or Burstein, Motty Franko

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Behavioral Science, The Academic College Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Eyal Gale

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University, Raanana, Israel

Assaf Handelsman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Segev Barak

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliations School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Shai Motsan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation School of Behavioral Science, The Academic College Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Alon Shamir

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Mazor Mental Health Center, Akko, Israel

Roni Toledano

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation School of Behavioral Science, The Academic College Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Omri Simhon

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation School of Behavioral Science, The Academic College Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Yafit Hirshler

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University, Raanana, Israel

Gang Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliations Center for Translational Systems Biology and Neuroscience, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, Key Laboratory of Integrative Biomedicine for Brain Diseases, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

Ravid Doron

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

raviddor@mta.ac.il

Affiliations School of Behavioral Science, The Academic College Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University, Raanana, Israel

Competing Interests

Dr. Ravid Doron has an approved patent relating the herbal treatment for anxiety disorders (Patent No. 9,320,772, USA). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare no conflict of interest.