About the Authors

Ying-Jay Liou

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Hsiun Chen

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Chinese Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chih-Ya Cheng

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shiow-Yi Chen

Affiliation Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

Tai-Jui Chen

Affiliation Yu’s Psychiatric Clinic, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Younger W-Y Yu

Affiliation Yu’s Psychiatric Clinic, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Fang-Shin Nian

Affiliation Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Jen Tsai

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chen-Jee Hong

cjhong@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJL CHC CYC SYC SJT CJH. Performed the experiments: YJL CYC SYC FSN. Analyzed the data: YJL CHC. Wrote the paper: YJL SJT CJH. Patient recruitment: YJL TJC YWYY SJT CJH.