About the Authors

Christian Schmahl

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Schmahl, Petra Ludäscher, Wolfgang Greffrath

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

Petra Ludäscher

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Schmahl, Petra Ludäscher, Wolfgang Greffrath

Petra.Ludaescher@zi-mannheim.de

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

Wolfgang Greffrath

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Schmahl, Petra Ludäscher, Wolfgang Greffrath

Affiliation Division of Neurophysiology, Center of Biomedicine and Medical Technology, Mannheim, Germany

Anja Kraus

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

Gabriele Valerius

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

Thomas G. Schulze

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Goettingen, Germany

Jens Treutlein

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

Marcella Rietschel

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

Michael N. Smolka

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Martin Bohus

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS PL WG AK GV MNS MB. Performed the experiments: CS PL WG AK GV. Analyzed the data: CS PL WG AK GV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS TGS JT MR MNS MB. Wrote the paper: CS PL WG MB. Interpretation of data: CS PL WG TGS JT MR MNS MB. Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content: CS PL WG AK GV TGS JT MR MNS MB.