About the Authors

Bethany L. Peterson

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

John Larson

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Rochelle Buffenstein

Affiliation Barshop Institute and Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Thomas J. Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas J. Park, Christopher P. Fall

tpark@uic.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Christopher P. Fall

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas J. Park, Christopher P. Fall

Affiliations Department of BioEngineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BLP JL TJP CPF. Performed the experiments: BLP CPF. Analyzed the data: BLP JL TJP CPF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB TJP CPF. Wrote the paper: BLP JL RB TJP CPF.