About the Authors

Florian Cornelius Uecker

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Heidi Olze

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Hagen Kunte

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Department of Neurology, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, MSB - Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christian Gerz

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Önder Göktas

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Lutz Harms

Affiliation Clinical and Experimental Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Department of Neurology, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Felix Alexander Schmidt

felix.schmidt@charite.de

Affiliation Clinical and Experimental Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Department of Neurology, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FS LH FCU. Data curation: FS FCU CG. Formal analysis: CG FCU FS. Investigation: CG FCU FS. Methodology: FS LH FCU OG. Project administration: FCU FS. Resources: LH FCU HO. Software: FCU FS. Supervision: FCU HO LH FS. Validation: FS FCU LH OG. Visualization: FS. Writing – original draft: FS. Writing – review & editing: FS FCU LH HK HO CG.