About the Authors

Simona Portaro

Contributed equally to this work with: Simona Portaro, Antonino Naro

Affiliation Istitute of Scientific Research and Care “IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo”, Messina, Italy

Antonino Naro

Contributed equally to this work with: Simona Portaro, Antonino Naro

Affiliation Istitute of Scientific Research and Care “IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo”, Messina, Italy

Antonino Chillura

Affiliation Istitute of Scientific Research and Care “IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo”, Messina, Italy

Luana Billeri

Affiliation Istitute of Scientific Research and Care “IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo”, Messina, Italy

Alessia Bramanti

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Placido Bramanti

Affiliation Istitute of Scientific Research and Care “IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo”, Messina, Italy

Carmelo Rodolico

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems “ISASI Edoardo Caianello”, National Research Council of Italy, Messina, Italy

Rocco Salvatore Calabrò

salbro77@tiscali.it

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Istitute of Scientific Research and Care “IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo”, Messina, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SP AN. Data curation: AC LB. Formal analysis: AB. Investigation: AN AC LB. Methodology: SP AN CR PB. Supervision: RSC. Validation: RSC. Visualization: SP AN RSC. Writing – original draft: SP AN. Writing – review & editing: PB RSC.