About the Authors

Christian Geis

Geis_C@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de

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

Andreas Weishaupt

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

Benedikt Grünewald

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

Thomas Wultsch

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Andreas Reif

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Manfred Gerlach

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Ron Dirkx

Affiliation Molecular Diabetology, Carl Gustav Carus Medical School, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Michele Solimena

Affiliation Molecular Diabetology, Carl Gustav Carus Medical School, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Daniela Perani

Affiliations Division of Neuroscience, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy, Division of Neuroscience, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Manfred Heckmann

Affiliations Institute of Physiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Rudolf Virchow Center, DFG Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Klaus V. Toyka

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

Franco Folli

Affiliation Diabetes Division, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Claudia Sommer

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CG KVT MH CS. Performed the experiments: CG AW BG TW MG RD DP. Analyzed the data: CG MS MH BG KVT CS AR RD DP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FF DP MG. Wrote the paper: CG KVT FF CS.