About the Authors

Blake Byers

Contributed equally to this work with: Blake Byers, Branden Cord, Ha Nam Nguyen

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Branden Cord

Contributed equally to this work with: Blake Byers, Branden Cord, Ha Nam Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ha Nam Nguyen

Contributed equally to this work with: Blake Byers, Branden Cord, Ha Nam Nguyen

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Birgitt Schüle

Affiliation Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Lief Fenno

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Patrick C. Lee

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Karl Deisseroth

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, United States of America

J. William Langston

Affiliation Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Renee Reijo Pera

reneer@stanford.edu (RRP); tpalmer@stanford.edu (TDP)

Affiliations Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Theo D. Palmer

reneer@stanford.edu (RRP); tpalmer@stanford.edu (TDP)

Affiliations Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB BC HNN RRP TDP. Performed the experiments: BB BC HNN PCL. Analyzed the data: BB BC HNN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS KD JWL. Wrote the paper: BB TDP RRP. Performed electrophysiological experiments: LF.