About the Authors

Ethika Tyagi

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

Rahul Agrawal

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

Yumei Zhuang

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

Catalina Abad

Affiliation Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

James A. Waschek

Affiliation Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at 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 California Los Angeles Brain Injury Research Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contribution in Immune system experiments: CA JAW. Conceived and designed the experiments: ET RA FGP. Performed the experiments: ET YZ RA. Analyzed the data: ET YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ET FGP. Wrote the paper: ET FGP RA.