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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Neurology, Foshan First People's Hospital, Foshan, China.
• ² Department of Clinical Data Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University Guangzhou, China.
• ³ Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
• ⁴ Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
• ⁵ Department of Neurology, Huizhou Sixth People's Hospital, Huizhou, China.
• ⁶ Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
• ⁷ Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
• ⁸ Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address: qiuwei120@vip.163.com.
• ⁹ Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address: zhongxn3@mail.sysu.edu.cn.