About the Authors

Massimo S. Fiandaca

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Translational Laboratory and Biorepository, Department of Neurology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America

Mark Mapstone

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Translational Laboratory and Biorepository, Department of Neurology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America

Amin Mahmoodi

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Translational Laboratory and Biorepository, Department of Neurology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America

Thomas Gross

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Translational Laboratory and Biorepository, Department of Neurology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America

Fabio Macciardi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliations Translational Laboratory and Biorepository, Department of Neurology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America

Amrita K. Cheema

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Kian Merchant-Borna

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Jeffrey Bazarian

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Howard J. Federoff

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Federoff@uci.edu

Affiliation Translational Laboratory and Biorepository, Department of Neurology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America

Competing Interests

MSF, MM, KM-B, JB, and HJF have filed intellectual property related to this research through Georgetown University. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other co-authors have declared no competing interests exist.