Sarasso, Elisabetta http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5300-2849
Agosta, Federica http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3121-4979
Piramide, Noemi
Bianchi, Francesca http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0227-9434
Butera, Carla
Gatti, Roberto
Amadio, Stefano
Del Carro, Ubaldo
Filippi, Massimo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5485-0479
Article History
Received: 27 November 2019
Revised: 18 December 2019
Accepted: 19 December 2019
First Online: 2 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: E. Sarasso, N. Piramide, F. Bianchi, C. Butera, R. Gatti, S. Amadio, U. Del Carro report no disclosures. F. Agosta is Section Editor of NeuroImage: Clinical; has received speaker honoraria from Philips, Novartis and Biogen Idec; and receives or has received research supports from the Italian Ministry of Health, AriSLA (Fondazione Italiana di Ricerca per la SLA), and the European Research Council. Prof. Filippi is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurology; received compensation for consulting services and/or speaking activities from Biogen Idec, Merck-Serono, Novartis, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries; and receives research support from Biogen Idec, Merck-Serono, Novartis, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Roche, Italian Ministry of Health, Fondazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla, and ARiSLA (Fondazione Italiana di Ricerca per la SLA).
: All procedures performed in the study involving human participants are in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All participants provided written informed consent prior to study inclusion.