About the Authors

Darius Moharregh-Khiabani

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Alexander Blank

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Skripuletz

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Elvira Miller

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Alexandra Kotsiari

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Viktoria Gudi

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany

Martin Stangel

Stangel.Martin@MH-Hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

This study was partially supported by Biogen Idec. MS received honoraria for lecturing activities and travel support to conferences from Biogen Idec, Bayer, Sanofi-Aventis, Merck-Serono. This does not alter the adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMK MS. Performed the experiments: DMK AB TS EM AK VG. Analyzed the data: DMK AB TS EM AK VG MS. Wrote the paper: DMK TS MS.