Wu Y, Gao Z, Zhang J. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2020;16:2633–2647.

At the authors request, the Editor and Publisher of Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment are retracting the published article.

The authors informed the journal that they were unable to verify the reported findings and requested to retract the article. Given that additional concerns had also been raised about the reliability of the findings, the Editor agreed with the authors decision.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.