Jean-François Bouchard is a professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Optometry.

Hong Long is a research associate in the molecular neurobiology laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Gary Aston-Jones is the Murray and Charlotte Strongwater Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Brain Health and the inaugural director of the Brain Health Institute at Rutgers University. He earned his PhD in neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology with James Olds and Floyd Bloom, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Bloom at the Salk Institute.

Jun Wang is an assistant professor in the department of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at the College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center. His research concentrates on identifying the neurobiological basis of neuropsychiatric diseases particularly the alcohol use disorder.

Xiao-Yue Zhu is a PhD Student at New York University-Shanghai. She carried out some experiments in this study as part of her undergraduate senior honors project at the University of St Andrews.

Vijay K. Samineni is a postdoctoral researcher in Robert Gereau’s lab at Washington University in St. Louis.