Ashton, Kira
Fuchs, Tom A.
Oship, Devon
Zivadinov, Robert
Jakimovski, Dejan
Bergsland, Niels
Ramasamy, Deepa P.
Vaughn, Caila
Weinstock-Guttman, Bianca
Benedict, Ralph H. B.
Dwyer, Michael G. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4684-4658
Article History
Received: 20 April 2020
Revised: 20 July 2020
Accepted: 22 July 2020
First Online: 4 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Ralph H. B. Benedict has received research support from Accorda, Genzyme, Biogen, and Mallinckrodt, and is on the speakers’ bureau for EMD Serono, consults for Abbvie, Biogen, Genentech, Roche, Sanofi, Verasci, and Novartis, and receives royalties for Psychological Assessment Resources. Robert Zivadinov received personal compensation from Teva Pharmaceuticals, Biogen Idec, EMD Serono, Genzyme-Sanofi, Claret Medical, IMS Health and Novartis for speaking and consultant fees. He received financial support for research activities from Teva Pharmaceuticals, Genzyme-Sanofi, Novartis, Claret Medical, Intekrin and IMS Health. Michael G Dwyer received personal compensation from Novartis and Claret Medical for speaking and consultant fees. He received financial support for research activities from Novartis. Bianca Weinstock-Guttman received honoraria as a speaker and as a consultant for Biogen Idec, EMD Serono, Novartis and Mallinckrodt. Dr Weinstock-Guttman received research funds from Biogen Idec, Teva Pharmaceuticals, EMD Serono, Genzyme, Sanofi, Novartis. Caila B Vaughn has received personal compensation from Merck/EMD Serono for consultant fees. Tom Fuchs, Kira Ashton, Niels Bergsland, Dejan Jakimovski, Devon Oship, and Deepa Ramasamy have nothing to disclose.
: The study protocol was approved by the University and Buffalo Institutional Ethics Review Board, and was therefore performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
: All participants’ written informed consent was obtained before participation.
: All participants’ written informed consent was obtained to publish their de-identified data before participation.