About the Authors

Peter M. Wayne

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

pwayne@bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brian J. Gow

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fengzhen Hou

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biomedical Functional Materials, School of Science, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China

Yan Ma

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Hausdorff

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for the Study of Movement, Cognition, and Mobility, Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sagol School of Neuroscience and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Justine Lo

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pamela M. Rist

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chung-Kang Peng

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lewis A. Lipsitz

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Gerontology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vera Novak

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Brad Manor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Gerontology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Peter Wayne is the founder and sole owner of the Tree of Life Tai Chi Center. Peter Wayne's interests were reviewed and managed by the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Partner's HealthCare in accordance with their conflict of interest policies. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No other authors have any potential conflicts to disclose.