About the Authors

Nicole von Steinbüchel

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole von Steinbüchel, Ruben G. L. Real

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Ruben G. L. Real

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole von Steinbüchel, Ruben G. L. Real

ruben.real@med.uni-goettingen.de

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Nadine Sasse

Affiliation Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Lindsay Wilson

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

Christiane Otto

Affiliations Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Ryan Mullins

Affiliation Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Robert Behr

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Center Fulda, Fulda, Germany

Wolfgang Deinsberger

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Center Kassel, Kassel, Germany

Ramon Martinez-Olivera

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery & Neurotraumatology at Bergmannsheil University Hospital Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Wolfgang Puschendorf

Affiliation Westend Neurological Clinic, Bad Wildungen, Germany

Werner Petereit

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Center Bernburg, Bernburg, Germany

Veit Rohde

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Holger Schmidt

Affiliations Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Stephan Sehmisch

Affiliation Trauma surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Klaus Michael Stürmer

Affiliation Trauma surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Klaus von Wild

Affiliation KvW Neuroscience Consulting, Muenster, Germany

Henning Gibbons

Affiliations Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NvS. Data curation: NvS. Formal analysis: RGLR CO HG. Funding acquisition: NvS. Investigation: NS RB WD RMO W. Puschendorf W. Petereit VR HS SS KMS KvW. Methodology: NvS. Project administration: NvS. Resources: NvS. Supervision: NvS. Visualization: RGLR. Writing – original draft: NvS CO HG. Writing – review & editing: NvS RGLR NS LW RM RB WD RMO W. Puschendorf W. Petereit VR HS SS KMS KvW.