About the Authors

Andrew C. Ahn

aahn1@partners.org

Affiliations Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Min Park

Affiliation P-pro Korea Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea

Jessica R. Shaw

Affiliation AltThera Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Claire A. McManus

Affiliation Department of Research and Training, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ted J. Kaptchuk

Affiliations Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Helene M. Langevin

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Competing Interests

Two of the authors (MP and JS) are presently employed by commercial companies but were employed at Harvard Medical School during the execution and completion of the study. Their present employers played no financial role and had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACA MP TK HL. Performed the experiments: ACA MP JRS CAM. Analyzed the data: ACA HL. Wrote the paper: ACA JRS CAM TK HL.