About the Authors
- Stefanie Leistner
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Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie Leistner, Steffen Benik
* E-mail: stefanie.leistner@charite.de
Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Steffen Benik
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Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie Leistner, Steffen Benik
Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Inga Laumeier
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Annerose Ziegler
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Gabriele Nieweler
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Christian H. Nolte
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Peter U. Heuschmann
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Heinrich J. Audebert
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Stroke Research, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
HJA has received speaker honoraria from Lundbeck Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Takeda Pharma, Sanofi Synthelabo, Bayer Vital, UCB Pharma as well as consultancy honoraria from Lundbeck Pharam and Bayer Vital. There are no conflicts of interest regarding employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products etc. in relation to any commercial funder. The above mentioned potential conflicts of interest do not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HJA. Performed the experiments: SB IL AZ GN. Analyzed the data: HJA SB SL. Wrote the paper: SL HJA. Statistical analysis: PUH. Critical review of the manuscript: CHN. Supervised the study: HJA.