About the Authors

Rita Barone

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rbarone@unict.it

Affiliations Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit—Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine; University of Catania, Catania, Italy, CNR-Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials IPCB, Catania, Italy

Concetto Spampinato

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

Affiliation Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering; University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Carmelo Pino

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering; University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Filippo Palermo

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Biostatistics—Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine; University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Anna Scuderi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Anna Zavattieri

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit—Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine; University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Mariangela Gulisano

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit—Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine; University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Daniela Giordano

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering; University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Renata Rizzo

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit—Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine; University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.