About the Authors

Pavel Dietz

Affiliation Department of Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation and Disease Prevention, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Rolf Ulrich

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Robert Dalaker

Affiliation Department of Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation and Disease Prevention, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Heiko Striegel

Affiliation Department of Sports Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Andreas G. Franke

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Klaus Lieb

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Perikles Simon

simonpe@uni-mainz.de

Affiliation Department of Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation and Disease Prevention, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PD RU HS AGF KL PS. Performed the experiments: PD RU RD HS AGF KL PS. Analyzed the data: PD RU RD PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PD RU RD HS AGF KL PS. Wrote the paper: PD RU RD HS AGF KL PS.