About the Authors

Robert N. Pechnick

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert N. Pechnick, Svetlana Zonis

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Svetlana Zonis

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert N. Pechnick, Svetlana Zonis

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kolja Wawrowsky

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rosemarie Cosgayon

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Catherine Farrokhi

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Liliana Lacayo

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Vera Chesnokova

chesnokovav@cshs.org

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC RP SZ. Performed the experiments: SZ KW RC CF LL. Analyzed the data: VC RP SZ KW CF. Wrote the paper: VC RP.