About the Authors

Antonia Vitalo

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Engineering and Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan Fricchione

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Engineering and Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Monica Casali

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Engineering and Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yevgeny Berdichevsky

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Engineering and Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elizabeth A. Hoge

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Scott L. Rauch

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States of America

Francois Berthiaume

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Engineering and Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martin L. Yarmush

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Engineering and Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Herbert Benson

Affiliations Department of Medicine Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gregory L. Fricchione

gfricchione@partners.org (GLF); jblevine@partners.org (JBL)

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John B. Levine

gfricchione@partners.org (GLF); jblevine@partners.org (JBL)

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Engineering and Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC YB EAH SLR FB MY HB GLF JBL. Performed the experiments: AV JF MC. Analyzed the data: AV FB JBL. Wrote the paper: MC SLR FB GLF JBL.