About the Authors

Hannah L. Pellkofer

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

Joachim Havla

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Daniela Hauer

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Gustav Schelling

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Shahnaz C. Azad

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Tania Kuempfel

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Walter Magerl

Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Magerl, Volker Huge

Affiliation Chair of Neurophysiology, Center for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim (CBTM), Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Volker Huge

Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Magerl, Volker Huge

vhuge@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HLP JH GS SCA TK WM VH. Performed the experiments: HLP DH GS VH. Analyzed the data: WM VH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HLP JH GS TK. Wrote the paper: HLP WM VH.