Quantifying Individual Variability in Neural Control Circuit Regulation Using Single-Subject fMRI

Author:

Kumar RajatORCID,Strey Helmut H.,Mujica-Parodi Lilianne R.ORCID

Abstract

AbstractAs a field, control systems engineering has developed quantitative methods to characterize the regulation of systems or processes, whose functioning is ubiquitous within synthetic systems. In this context, a control circuit is objectively “well regulated” when discrepancy between desired and achieved output trajectories is minimized and “robust” to the degree that it can regulate well in response to a wide range of stimuli. Most psychiatric disorders are assumed to reflect dysregulation of brain circuits. Yet, probing circuit regulation requires fundamentally different analytic strategies than the correlations relied upon for analyses of connectivity and their resultant networks. Here, we demonstrate how well-established methods for system identification in control systems engineering may be applied to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to extract generative computational models of human brain circuits. As required for clinical neurodiagnostics, we show these models to be extractable even at the level of the single subject. Control parameters provide two quantitative measures of direct relevance for psychiatric disorders: a circuit’s sensitivity to external perturbation and its dysregulation.

Funder

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Baszucki Brain Research Fund

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Developmental and Educational Psychology,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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