Schuster, Simon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6038-0138
Ozga, Ann-Kathrin
Stellmann, Jan-Patrick
Deb-Chatterji, Milani
Häußler, Vivien
Matschke, Jakob
Gerloff, Christian
Thomalla, Götz
Magnus, Tim
Article History
Received: 6 February 2019
Revised: 9 March 2019
Accepted: 15 March 2019
First Online: 23 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Simon Schuster received funding for travel from Grifols. Ann-Kathrin Ozga nothing to report. Jan-Patrick Stellmann received honoraria for consultancy or lectures, travel reimbursement, and grant support from Biogen, Merck Serono, Novartis, Genzyme, and Medimmune. Milani Deb-Chatterji nothing to report. Vivien Häußler nothing to report. Jakob Matschke nothing to report. Christian Gerloff serves on scientific advisory boards for Bayer Vital, Boehringer Ingelheim, Acticor Biotech, Amgen, and Prediction Biosciences; has received funding for travel and/or speaker/ consulting honoraria from Bayer Vital, Boehringer Ingelheim, Sanofi Aventis, Amgen, EBS Technologies, GlaxoSmithKline, Lundbeck, Pfizer, Silk Road Medical, and UCB, and Abbott; serves on editorial boards for INFO Neurologie & Psychiatrie and Aktuelle Neurologie and as editor of textbook Therapie und Verlauf neurologischer Erkrankungen; has received grants to supporting employees/ scientists of his clinic from Merz Pharmaceuticals, Allergan, Novartis, and NeuroConn; and receives research support from Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, the European Union, Wegener Foundation, Schilling Foundation, and Werner-Otto- Foundation. Götz Thomalla has received personal fees from Acandis, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb/ Pfizer, Daichi Sankyo, Stryker, grants and personal fees from Bayer, grants from the European Union (FP-7, H2020), German Research Foundation, Corona Foundation, and German Innovation Fund. Tim Magnus has received personal fees from Merck-Serono, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb/ Pfizer, Novartis, Biogen, Grifols, CSL-Behring grants from the European Union (FP-7, ERA-NET), German Research Foundation, Schilling Foundation, and Werner-Otto Foundation.
: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.