About the Authors

Edward Hill

Affiliation Department of Software and Information Technology Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure - Université du Québec, Montréal, Québec, Canada

David Han

Affiliation Department of Management Science and Statistics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Pierre Dumouchel

Affiliation Department of Software and Information Technology Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure - Université du Québec, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Najim Dehak

Affiliation Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas Quatieri

Affiliation Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles Moehs

Affiliation Occupational Medicine Associates, Watertown, New York, United States of America

Marlene Oscar-Berman

Affiliation Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, and Boston Veteran Affaires Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John Giordano

Affiliation G & G Holistic Health Care Services, LLC., North Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America

Thomas Simpatico

Affiliation Global Integrated Services Unit University of Vermont Center for Clinical and Translational Science, College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Kenneth Blum

drd2gene@gmail.com

Affiliations G & G Holistic Health Care Services, LLC., North Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America, Global Integrated Services Unit University of Vermont Center for Clinical and Translational Science, College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Malibu Beach Recovery Center, Malibu Beach, California, United States of America, Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology, Nonakuri, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Edward Hill, P. Dumouchel. N. Dehak, and T. Quatieriare involved in the development of the Emotion Detector. J. Giordano and K. Blum are employed by G & G Holistic Health Care Services, LLC. K. Blum is employed by Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. 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: EH PD. Performed the experiments: CM. Analyzed the data: DH EH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EH. Wrote the paper: KB EH PD ND TQ MOB. Reviewed the entire manuscript provided clinical insights as well literature review: JG TS MOB. Wrote the entire first draft and coordinated the entire submission process: KB.