About the Authors

Mitsuru Kikuchi

mitsuru@zc4.so-net.ne.jp

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Thomas Koenig

Affiliation Department of Psychiatric Neurophysiology, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Toshio Munesue

Affiliation Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Akira Hanaoka

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Werner Strik

Affiliation Department of Psychiatric Neurophysiology, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Thomas Dierks

Affiliation Department of Psychiatric Neurophysiology, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Yoshifumi Koshino

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Yoshio Minabe

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WS TD YM. Performed the experiments: MK TK TM AH YK. Analyzed the data: MK TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK TK. Wrote the paper: MK TK.