About the Authors

Hsiao-Lun Ku

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsiao-Lun Ku, Chia-Shu Lin

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Integrated Brain Research Unit, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chia-Shu Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsiao-Lun Ku, Chia-Shu Lin

Affiliations Integrated Brain Research Unit, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsiang-Tai Chao

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Pei-Chi Tu

Affiliations Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Cheng-Ta Li

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chou-Ming Cheng

Affiliation Integrated Brain Research Unit, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tung-Ping Su

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ying-Chiao Lee

jchsieh@ym.edu.tw (J-CH); yclee@vghtpe.gov.tw (Y-CL)

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jen-Chuen Hsieh

jchsieh@ym.edu.tw (J-CH); yclee@vghtpe.gov.tw (Y-CL)

Affiliations Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Integrated Brain Research Unit, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Center for Neuropsychiatric Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HLK YCL JCH. Performed the experiments: HLK YCL JCH. Analyzed the data: HLK CSL JCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HLK CSL YCL JCH. Wrote the paper: HLK, CSL and JCH. Clinical assessment: YCL HTC HLK PCT CTL TPS. fMRI scanning: CMC.