About the Authors

Zhe Ying

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Cameron Feng

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rahul Agrawal

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yumei Zhuang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Fernando Gomez-Pinilla

fgomezpi@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY RA FGP. Performed the experiments: CF RA YZ. Analyzed the data: CF YZ. Wrote the paper: ZY CF FGP.