About the Authors

Philipp Albrecht

phil.albrecht@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Ann-Kristin Müller

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Marius Ringelstein

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

David Finis

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Gerd Geerling

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Eva Cohn

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Orhan Aktas

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Hans-Peter Hartung

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Harald Hefter

Contributed equally to this work with: Harald Hefter, Axel Methner

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Axel Methner

Contributed equally to this work with: Harald Hefter, Axel Methner

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PA HH AM. Performed the experiments: PA AKM EC DF MR HH. Analyzed the data: PA AKM MR HH AM GG HPH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HPH GG. Wrote the paper: PA AM OA HPH. Revised the manuscript: HPH GG OA MR.