About the Authors

Hadas Stiebel-Kalish

kalishhadas@gmail.com

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel

Itay Lotan

Contributed equally to this work with: Itay Lotan, Judith Brody

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Neuro-Immunology Service and Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel

Judith Brody

Contributed equally to this work with: Itay Lotan, Judith Brody

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel

Gabriel Chodick

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Omer Bialer

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel

Romain Marignier

Affiliation Service de Neurologie A, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon-Bron, France

Michael Bach

Affiliation Eye Center, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany

Mark Andrew Hellmann

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Neuro-Immunology Service and Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel

Competing Interests

Dr. Marignier serves on the scientific advisory board for MedImmune and has received honoraria from Biogen Idec, MerckSerono, Novartis, and Sanofi-Genzyme. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HS-K RM IL MAH. Data curation: HS-K RM MB IL MAH JB OB. Formal analysis: GC JB HS-K MB. Investigation: HS-K RM IL MAH JB OB. Methodology: HS-K RM GC MB. Project administration: HS-K. Software: MB. Supervision: HS-K. Validation: HS-K RM IL MAH JB OB MB. Visualization: HS-K JB GC MB. Writing – original draft: HS-K IL OB JB RM GC MAH. Writing – review & editing: HS-K IL OB JB RM GC MAH MB.