About the Authors

Nian Xiong

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Jinsha Huang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Zhentao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Zhaowen Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Jing Xiong

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Xingyuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Min Jia

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Fang Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Chunnuan Chen

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Xuebing Cao

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Zhihou Liang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Shenggang Sun

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Zhicheng Lin

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Mailman Research Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tao Wang

wangtaowh@yahoo.cn

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NX JH ZZ XC ZL SS ZL TW. Performed the experiments: NX JH ZZ JX XL MJ FW CC. Analyzed the data: NX ZZ ZZ TW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NX ZZ JX. Wrote the paper: ZZ ZL TW.