About the Authors

Mary A. Fletcher

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary A. Fletcher, Nancy G. Klimas

mfletche@med.miami.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Miami Veterans Health Care Center, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

Xiao R. Zeng

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Miami Veterans Health Care Center, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Kevin Maher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Silvina Levis

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Miami Veterans Health Care Center, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Barry Hurwitz

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

Michael Antoni

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

Gordon Broderick

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Nancy G. Klimas

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary A. Fletcher, Nancy G. Klimas

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Miami Veterans Health Care Center, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAAF KM NGK. Performed the experiments: XRZ KM. Analyzed the data: MAAF GJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL BH MA. Wrote the paper: MAAF NGK. Critically reviewed paper: BH, MA, GJB.