About the Authors

Axel Haarmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Axel Haarmann, Annika Deiß

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany

Annika Deiß

Contributed equally to this work with: Axel Haarmann, Annika Deiß

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany

Jürgen Prochaska

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany

Christian Foerch

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Babette Weksler

Affiliation Divison of Hematology-Medical Oncology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Ignacio Romero

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Pierre-Olivier Couraud

Affiliation Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Guido Stoll

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany

Peter Rieckmann

Current address: Division of Neurology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany

Mathias Buttmann

m.buttmann@uni-wuerzburg.de

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH AD PR MB. Performed the experiments: AH AD JP MB. Analyzed the data: AH AD JP GS PR MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CF BBW IAR POC. Wrote the paper: AH AD GS PR MB.