About the Authors

Walter Maetzler

Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Maetzler, Anja Apel, Markus Langkamp

Walter.maetzler@uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Anja Apel

Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Maetzler, Anja Apel, Markus Langkamp

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Markus Langkamp

Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Maetzler, Anja Apel, Markus Langkamp

Affiliation Mediagnost, Reutlingen, Germany

Christian Deuschle

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Sarah Selina Dilger

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Johannes Georg Stirnkorb

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Claudia Schulte

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Erwin Schleicher

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Thomas Gasser

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Daniela Berg

Affiliations Center of Neurology, Department of Neurodegeneration and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Competing Interests

One of the authors (Markus Langkamp) is employed by a commercial company (Mediagnost, Reutlingen, Germany). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WM ML DB. Performed the experiments: ML CD SSD JGS CS ES. Analyzed the data: WM ML AA CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WM ML ES TG DB. Wrote the paper: WM ML AA TG DB.