About the Authors

Lan Xia

Affiliations Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China, Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China

Gui-Hai Chen

chenguihai1964@163.com

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China

Zhi-Hua Li

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China

Song Jiang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China

Jianhua Shen

Affiliation Sleep Research Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: G-HC JS. Performed the experiments: LX Z-HL. Analyzed the data: LX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Z-HL SJ. Wrote the paper: LX.