About the Authors

Xian-Cang Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Xian-Cang Ma, Yong-Hui Dang

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China

Yong-Hui Dang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xian-Cang Ma, Yong-Hui Dang

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Key Laboratory of the Health Ministry for Forensic Medicine, Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes Related to Diseases of the Education Ministry, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, China

Min Jia

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China

Rui Ma

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China

Fen Wang

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China

Jin Wu

Affiliation Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba, Japan

Cheng-Ge Gao

yaogaow@163.com (CGG); hashimoto@faculty.chiba-u.jp (KH)

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China

Kenji Hashimoto

yaogaow@163.com (CGG); hashimoto@faculty.chiba-u.jp (KH)

Affiliation Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

Kenji Hashimoto is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XCM YHD KH. Performed the experiments: XCM YHD MJ RM FW. Analyzed the data: XCM YHD MJ RM FW JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XCM YHD MJ RM FW JW CGG. Wrote the paper: XCM YHD CGG KH.