Live Science - A new map of the human brain during its development in the womb provides a detailed blueprint of where different genes are active at this critical stage of in a fetus' life.

Discovery Magazine - The brain is an incredibly complex organ. The tiny mouse brain, for example, contains over 86 million neurons.

Business Insider - Scientists at Seattle's Allen Institute for Brain Science have completed the first comprehensive map of a mammalian brain.

Bloomberg - Autism begins when certain brain cells fail to properly mature within the womb, according to scientists who say the scattered pattern of the undeveloped cells may explain the wide range of symptoms seen in children.

The Wall Street Journal - What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant that let you hear any conversation in a noisy restaurant, no matter how loud?

The New York Times - When Clay Reid decided to leave his job as a professor at Harvard Medical School to become a senior investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle in 2012, some of his colleagues congratulated him warmly and understood right away why he was making the move.

NBC News - A new initiative to understand the human brain, announced by President Barack Obama earlier this year, has left people wondering exactly what its goals will be.

Wired - It's a question that's perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from?

Nature - Barack Obama announced his BRAIN Initiative on 2 April. Ever since, neuroscientists have been scrambling to work out what it actually is.