On the stability of equilibria of the physiologically-informed dynamic causal model

Abstract

Experimental manipulations perturb the neuronal activity. This phenomenon is manifested in the fMRI response. Dynamic causal model and its variants can model these neuronal responses along with the BOLD responses [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] . Physiologically-informed DCM (P-DCM) [5] gives state-of-the-art results in this aspect. But, P-DCM has more parameters compared to the standard DCM model and the stability of this particular model is still unexplored. In this work, we will try to explore the stability of the P-DCM model and find the ranges of the model parameters which make it stable.