About the Authors

Marco Boccitto

boccitto@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Todd Lamitina

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert G. Kalb

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

TL is an academic editor for PLoS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB BK TL. Performed the experiments: MB. Analyzed the data: MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL. Wrote the paper: MB.