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.

Wired - In 2003, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen spent $100 million to build the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.

The Economist - “THE brain is quite unlike a computer. Instead of memory and a few calculating elements, evolution designed every little bit of it to be hideously complex.”

The Seattle Times - Are mice fans of film noir?

NPR - The human brain contains some 100 billion neurons, which together form a network of Internet-like complexity.

Puget Sound Business Journal - Maja Larson: Finalist, Outstanding Corporate Counsel for a Nonprofit Organization