About the Authors

Yi-Chung Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Chung Lee, Bing-Wen Soong

bwsoong@ym.edu.tw (BWS); ycli@vghtpe.gov.tw (YC. Lee)

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Jen Lee

Affiliation Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsiang-Yu Yu

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

Chien Chen

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

Chang-Hung Hsu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Kon-Ping Lin

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

Kwong-Kum Liao

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

Ming-Hong Chang

Affiliations Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Section of Neurology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Chu Liao

Affiliations Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Section of Neurology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Bing-Wen Soong

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Chung Lee, Bing-Wen Soong

bwsoong@ym.edu.tw (BWS); ycli@vghtpe.gov.tw (YC. Lee)

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC. Lee BWS. Performed the experiments: YC. Lee BWS. Analyzed the data: YC. Lee BWS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YC. Lee MJL HYY CC CHH KPL KKL MHC YC. Liao BWS. Wrote the paper: YC. Lee MJL HYY CC CHH KPL KKL MHC YC. Liao BWS.