Di Lorenzo, Cherubino http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0845-5694
Coppola, Gianluca
Bracaglia, Martina
Di Lenola, Davide
Sirianni, Giulio
Rossi, Paolo
Di Lorenzo, Giorgio
Parisi, Vincenzo
Serrao, Mariano
Cervenka, Mackenzie C.
Pierelli, Francesco
Article History
Received: 20 November 2018
Accepted: 31 May 2019
First Online: 22 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The project was approved by the Ethics Committee of the “Sapienza” University of Rome (#1566/14) and was compliant with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations for ethics. All study participants were naïve to the study procedure, had the capacity of independent decision-making, received a complete description of the study, and provided written informed consent.Trial registration: The ICMJE strict requirement of prospective registration of clinical trials came to our attention when the recruitment had already begun. The study was therefore retrospectively registered on December 09, 2018 onExternalRef removed(NCT03775252).
: Not applicable.
: Gianluca Coppola is an Editorial Board Member of BMC Neurology. The authors declare that they have no other competing interests.