About the Authors

Cristiane Rickli

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biological and Health Sciences Division, State University of Ponta Grossa–UEPG, Ponta Grossa-PR, Brazil

Lais Daiene Cosmoski

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biological and Health Sciences Division, State University of Ponta Grossa–UEPG, Ponta Grossa-PR, Brazil

Fábio André dos Santos

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

Affiliation Biological and Health Sciences Division, State University of Ponta Grossa–UEPG, Ponta Grossa-PR, Brazil

Gustavo Henrique Frigieri

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Braincare Desenvolvimento e Inovação Tecnológica S.A., São Carlos-SP, Brazil

Nicollas Nunes Rabelo

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neurosurgery Department, Center University UniAtenas, Paracatu-MG, Brazil

Adriana Menegat Schuinski

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biological and Health Sciences Division, State University of Ponta Grossa–UEPG, Ponta Grossa-PR, Brazil

Sérgio Mascarenhas

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Braincare Desenvolvimento e Inovação Tecnológica S.A., São Carlos-SP, Brazil

José Carlos Rebuglio Vellosa

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

josevellosa@yahoo.com.br

Affiliation Biological and Health Sciences Division, State University of Ponta Grossa–UEPG, Ponta Grossa-PR, Brazil

Competing Interests

CR declares no competing interests/ has nothing to disclose. LDC declares no competing interests/ has nothing to disclose. FAS declares no competing interests/ has nothing to disclose. GHF declares personal fees as employee (Research Coordinator) from Braincare Desenvolvimento e Inovação Tecnológica S.A., during the conduct of the study; In addition, GHF has a patent US9826934B2 issued, and a patent US9993170B1 issued. The funder (Braincare Desenvolvimento e Inovação Tecnológica S.A.) only provided support in the form of salaries for author GHF, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. NNR declares personal fees as medical consultant from Braincare Desenvolvimento e Inovação Tecnológica S.A., during the conduct of the study. The funder (Braincare Desenvolvimento e Inovação Tecnológica S.A.) only provided support in the form of consultant fee for author NNR, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. AMS declares no competing interests/ has nothing to disclose. SM declares he has a patent US9826934B2 issued, and a patent US9993170B1 issued. These patents issued do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. JCRV declares no competing interests/ has nothing to disclose.