About the Authors

Brittany Liebenow

Contributed equally to this work with: Brittany Liebenow, Michelle Williams

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

Affiliations Neuroscience Graduate Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Michelle Williams

Contributed equally to this work with: Brittany Liebenow, Michelle Williams

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

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Thomas Wilson

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Ihtsham ul Haq

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Mustafa S. Siddiqui

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Adrian W. Laxton

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Stephen B. Tatter

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Kenneth T. Kishida

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kkishida@wakehealth.edu

Affiliations Neuroscience Graduate Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Dr. Ihtsham ul Haq has received salary support for research from Allergan, Boston Scientific, Great Lakes Neurotechnology, and Pfizer. He has consulted for compensation for Boston Scientific and Medtronics. He has received funding from the NINDS, the NIAA, and the Parkinson’s Foundation. Dr. Mustafa Siddiqui has received research support as a site Principal Investigator for clinical trials from Neuraly, University of Rochester, Michael J. Fox-Neuropoint Alliance, Theravance Biopharma, Impax Laboratories, Sun Pharma, Abbvie, Boston Scientific Neuromodulation, Biogen and Sunovion. He has received honoraria or non-financial support as scientific advisor from Abbvie and Boston Scientific Neuromodulation. Dr. Adrian Laxton is a consultant and member of the safety committee for Monteris Medical. Dr. Stephen Tatter has received research support as a Principal Investigator for clinical trials from from Arbor Pharmaceuticals and Monteris Medical, Inc. All other authors have no competing interests to declare.