About the Authors

Anne-Marie Landtblom

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

anne-marie.landtblom@neuro.uu.se

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience/Neurology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Dimitri Guala

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Merck AB, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden

Claes Martin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neurology Unit, Division of Internal Medicine, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Stefan Olsson-Hau

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

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Sara Haghighi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Motala Hospital, Motala, Sweden

Lillemor Jansson

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Academic Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Sten Fredrikson

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AML has received honoraria for lectures and advisory boards from Merck Serono, Teva, Biogen, Roche and Sanofi Genzyme. DG is employed by Merck AB, Sweden. CM has received honoraria for lectures and advisory boards from Merck, Teva and Sanofi Genzyme. SH has received honoraria for lectures and/or advisory boards from Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Sanofi Genzyme, and Teva. SOH has received honoraria for advisory boards and/or consultancy, from Biogen Idec and Novartis. LJ has received honoraria for advisory boards and/or consultancy, from Biogen Idec, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis and Teva. SF has received honoraria for lectures, educational activities and/or consultancy from Allergan, Bayer, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi and Teva. The study presented here was sponsored by Merck AB. Merck AB manufactures the RebiSmart device used in the study. One of the authors, Dr Dimitri Guala, is an employee of Merck AB. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.