About the Authors

M. Selvan Joseph

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zhe Ying

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yumei Zhuang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hui Zhong

Affiliation Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Aiguo Wu

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Harsharan S. Bhatia

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rusvelda Cruz

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Niranjala J. K. Tillakaratne

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Roland R. Roy

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

V. Reggie Edgerton

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Fernando Gomez-Pinilla

fgomezpi@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, 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: FGP VRE MSJ ZY NT. Performed the experiments: MSJ ZY YMZ HSB AW RC HZ. Analyzed the data: MSJ ZY YMZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSJ ZY NT. Wrote the paper: MSJ FGP ZY VRE RRR.