**Author details**

Boulenouar Mesraoua1,2\*, Dirk Deleu1,2, Hassan Al Hail1,2, Musab Ali1 , Naim Haddad2 , Gayane Melykian1,2, Yasser Osman M. Ali1,2, Lubna El Sheikh1 , Ali A. Asadi-Pooya3,4 and Peter Kaplan5

1 Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar

2 Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar, Doha, Qatar

3 Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA

4 Department of Neurology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

5 Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, USA

\*Address all correspondence to: boulenouar.mesraoua@wanadoo.fr

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