About the Authors

Kristina Bettecken

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristina Bettecken, Felix Bernhard, Jennifer Sartor

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

Felix Bernhard

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristina Bettecken, Felix Bernhard, Jennifer Sartor

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

Jennifer Sartor

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristina Bettecken, Felix Bernhard, Jennifer Sartor

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

Markus A. Hobert

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

Marc Hofmann

Affiliation Hasomed, Magdeburg, Germany

Till Gladow

Affiliations Hasomed, Magdeburg, Germany, Institute for Physiotherapy, Department of Clinical Research, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Janet M. T. van Uem

janet.uem@uni-tuebingen.de

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

Inga Liepelt-Scarfone

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

Walter Maetzler

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

Competing Interests

Hasomed provided support in the form of salaries for authors MH and TG. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: WM FB KB. Data curation: KB FB JS. Formal analysis: KB ILS JMTvU. Funding acquisition: WM. Investigation: KB FB JS. Methodology: KB MAH JMTvU ILS WM. Project administration: KB FB MAH WM. Resources: WM MH TG. Software: WM MH TG. Supervision: WM. Validation: WM JMTvU MAH ILS. Visualization: KB JMTvU WM. Writing – original draft: KB JMTvU WM. Writing – review & editing: KB MAH JMTvU WM.