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
  • SPM on Scholarpedia
• DCM: Dynamic Causal Modeling
  • If you are not familiar with this concept, consider reading this article on Scholarpedia
• EEG: Electroencephalography/Electroencephalogram
  • EEG on Scholarpedia
  • Functional imaging on Scholarpedia
• fMRI: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • fMRI on Scholarpedia
• 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
  • Douglas, Martin, and Whitteridge, (1989). A canonical microcircuit for neocortex. Neural Comput. 1, 480–488.
  • Bastos, Usrey, Adams, Mangun, Fries, and Friston (2012). Canonical Microcircuits for Predictive Coding. Neuron 76

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: [ __×__ 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.