About the Authors

Fang Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Zhao, Meng Li

Affiliations Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute and Department of Neurology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Yunnan Banna Primate Model Research Center, BanNa Biomedical Research Institute, XiShuangBanNa, Yunnan, China

Meng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Zhao, Meng Li

Affiliation Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute and Department of Neurology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Yi Qian

Affiliation Yunnan Banna Primate Model Research Center, BanNa Biomedical Research Institute, XiShuangBanNa, Yunnan, China

Joe Z. Tsien

jtsien@gru.edu

Affiliation Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute and Department of Neurology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have a patent entitled “Methods and systems for measuring dynamic changes in the physiological parameters of a subject” (United States application number 13/462,524. PCT application number PCT/US2013/029551 was filed). The authors declare that this does not alter the adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FZ ML JZT. Performed the experiments: FZ ML YQ. Analyzed the data: FZ ML. Wrote the paper: FZ ML JZT.