About the Authors

Andreas Bender

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Bender, Paula Desplats, Brian Spencer

Affiliations Department of Neurology with Friedrich-Baur-Institute, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Paula Desplats

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Bender, Paula Desplats, Brian Spencer

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Brian Spencer

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Bender, Paula Desplats, Brian Spencer

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Edward Rockenstein

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Anthony Adame

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Matthias Elstner

Affiliation Department of Neurology with Friedrich-Baur-Institute, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Christoph Laub

Affiliation Department of Neurology with Friedrich-Baur-Institute, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Sarina Mueller

Affiliation Department of Neurology with Friedrich-Baur-Institute, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Andrew O. Koob

Affiliation Department of Neurology with Friedrich-Baur-Institute, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Michael Mante

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Emily Pham

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Thomas Klopstock

Affiliation Department of Neurology with Friedrich-Baur-Institute, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Eliezer Masliah

emasliah@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB PD BS EM. Performed the experiments: AB BS PD ER AA ME CL SM AK MM EP TK. Analyzed the data: AB PD BS EM. Wrote the paper: AB PD BS EM.