“…Singular canard solution of the Hindmarsh-Rose (4.1) model in the (x 3 , y) plane phase, its critical manifold (in green) and the second-order approximation in ε of the slow invariant manifold (in blue) with the following parameter set: a = 1, b = 3, c = 1, d = 0.275255, I = 2.7, α = −1.2 and for the "duck parameter" value s = 3.0810445478558141214.According to equations (3.16) we find that:p = σ 1 = T r [J] = s, q = σ 2 = −2 (b − d) [s (ỹ 2 − α) −x 1 ] .Thus, according to Proposition 3.4, the pseudo singular point is of saddle-type if and only if:− 2 (b − d) [s (z − α) −x] < 0. (4.13)In her work Shchepakina[28] used the following parameter set: a = 1, b = 3, c = 1, d = 0.275255, I = 2.7 and α = −1.2. According to equation (4.13) and with such a parameter set, i.e.…”