About the Authors

Namni Goel

goel@mail.med.upenn.edu.

Affiliation Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Siobhan Banks

Current address: Centre for Sleep Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Affiliation Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Emmanuel Mignot

Affiliation Center for Narcolepsy, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

David F. Dinges

Affiliation Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NG EM DD. Performed the experiments: SB. Analyzed the data: NG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM. Wrote the paper: NG DD.