About the Authors

Petra Steinacker

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Lubin Fang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Jens Kuhle

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Axel Petzold

Affiliation Department of Neuroimmunology, UCL Institute of Neurology/National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom

Hayrettin Tumani

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Albert C. Ludolph

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Markus Otto

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Johannes Brettschneider

Johannes.brettschneider@uni-ulm.de

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS MO JB LF AL HT AP. Performed the experiments: PS LF JK. Analyzed the data: HT AL JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK AP PS HT AL MO JB. Wrote the paper: JB AP.