A community-fed documentation for the DCM structs available on SPM12. It's still a work in progress and heavily biased torwards the types of models I am dealing with presently, so contributions are very welcome.
- SPM: Statistical Parametric Mapping
- DCM: Dynamic Causal Modeling
- If you are not familiar with this concept, consider reading this article on Scholarpedia
- EEG: Electroencephalography/Electroencephalogram
- fMRI: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- NMM: Neural mass model
- MFM: Mean Field model
- NMDA: N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid. Often, you will see NMDA alone in the documentation. However, what is usually meant is the NMDA receptor
- The Morris-Lecar model was expanded in 2010 to include NMDA ion channels in pyramidal cells and inhibitory interneurons. For details, please consult the paper by Moran et al, 2010
- CMC: canonical microcircuit
If you want to contribute, please regard the following rules:
- Keep the hierarchy, folder-like, formatting as is. Or create an issue if you have a better suggestion!
- If the type of a parameter is known but dimensions vary, write:
parameter: [ __ร__ double ]
- Comments to a single field of the struct should preferably be written as inline comments next to the specific field. If they are too long, create a footnote.