About the Authors

Felix Giebels

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Small Animal Clinic (WE20), Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Division of Clinical Neurology, Vetsuisse Faculty of Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Laura Pieper

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Institute for Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Barbara Kohn

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Small Animal Clinic (WE20), Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Holger Andreas Volk

Contributed equally to this work with: Holger Andreas Volk, Nadia Shihab

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Nadia Shihab

Contributed equally to this work with: Holger Andreas Volk, Nadia Shihab

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Southern Counties Veterinary Specialists, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Forest Corner Farm, Hangersley, Ringwood, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Shenja Loderstedt

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Shenja.Loderstedt@kleintierklinik.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliations Small Animal Clinic (WE20), Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Small Animal Department, Neurology and Neurosurgery Unit, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.