About the Authors

Rahav Boussi-Gross

Contributed equally to this work with: Rahav Boussi-Gross, Haim Golan

Affiliation The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

Haim Golan

Contributed equally to this work with: Rahav Boussi-Gross, Haim Golan

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nuclear Medicine institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

Gregori Fishlev

Affiliation The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

Yair Bechor

Affiliation The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

Olga Volkov

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nuclear Medicine institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

Jacob Bergan

Affiliation The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

Mony Friedman

Affiliation The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

Dan Hoofien

Affiliations Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, The National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Nathan Shlamkovitch

Affiliation Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

Eshel Ben-Jacob

efratishai@013.net (SE); eshel@rice.edu (EB-J)

Affiliations Research and Development Unit, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Shai Efrati

efratishai@013.net (SE); eshel@rice.edu (EB-J)

Affiliations The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, Research and Development Unit, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB-G HG SE. Performed the experiments: HG GF YB OV NS. Analyzed the data: RB-G HG JB MF DH EB-J SE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HG OV SE. Wrote the paper: RB-G HG EB-J SE.