About the Authors

Philipp Mahlknecht

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Stefan Kiechl

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Bastiaan R. Bloem

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Johann Willeit

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Christoph Scherfler

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Arno Gasperi

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hospital of Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy

Gregorio Rungger

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hospital of Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy

Werner Poewe

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Klaus Seppi

Klaus.Seppi@uki.at

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PM SK JW CS AG WP KS. Performed the experiments: PM AG GR KS. Analyzed the data: PM SK BRB WP KS. Wrote the paper: PM SK BRB JW WP KS.