About the Authors

Ozlem Bozdagi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ozlem Bozdagi, Takeshi Sakurai

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Takeshi Sakurai

Contributed equally to this work with: Ozlem Bozdagi, Takeshi Sakurai

Current address: Medical Innovation Center, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Nathan Dorr

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Marion Pilorge

Current address: INSERM U952, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Nagahide Takahashi

Current address: Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Joseph D. Buxbaum

joseph.buxbaum@mssm.edu

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

OB, TS, and JDB have submitted a patent on this work (“Methods of Treating Psychiatric or Neurological Disorders with MGLUR Antagonists”; No. '61/255,340; File date: 10/27/2009). 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: OB TS JDB. Performed the experiments: OB TS ND MP NT. Analyzed the data: OB TS ND MP NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OB TS ND MP NT. Wrote the paper: OB TS JDB.