About the Authors

Dragos Mihaila

Contributed equally to this work with: Dragos Mihaila, Jordan Donegan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Jordan Donegan

Contributed equally to this work with: Dragos Mihaila, Jordan Donegan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Sarah Barns

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Quadrant Biosciences, Inc., Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Daria LaRocca

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Qian Du

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Quadrant Biosciences, Inc., Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Danny Zheng

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Michael Vidal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Christopher Neville

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Department of Physical Therapy Education, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Richard Uhlig

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Quadrant Biosciences, Inc., Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Frank A. Middleton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

middletf@upstate.edu

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

FM and CN are unpaid members of the Scientific Advisory Board of Quadrant Biosciences, Inc., which provided funding for the study. CN also has equity interest in Quadrant Biosciences. These conflicts are fully managed by a conflict of interest management plan filed with SUNY Upstate Medical University. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.