About the Authors

Lee Michael von Kraus

Affiliation Graduate Program in Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Todd Charlton Sacktor

Affiliations The Robert Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Joseph Thachil Francis

Joe.francis@downstate.edu

Affiliations The Robert Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMvK JTF. Performed the experiments: LMvK. Analyzed the data: LMvK JTF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMvK TCS. Wrote the paper: LMvK TCS JTF.