“effzett” the magazine of Juelich Researche Centre published an article for the public and  ecision makers on a recent finding on the restricted scalability of neuronal networks.
http://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/PORTAL/DE/publikationen/effzett/effzett_2015_3.pdf (until now only available in german)

The original work uses NEST technology to verify the analytical work.
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004490