Help with brain

I'm going to do a brain in Maya as a favor for a friend, but I dont know exactly how to go about it. Anyone know of any good tutorials or referces?

Besides anything involving a saw, or an axe, please. I'd like to keep my head, and i dont exactly favor murder, thankyou. lol.

I'm going for an either stylized version, or complete photorealism.
Afterwards, he wants me to put microchips embedded or overlaid ontop of it.

I have Maya Unlimited, Maya Fusion, and Bryce 5 to work with.

Thankee!!

Reference

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~Brainmd1/brain.html

Here's a link for a lightwave tutorial for modelling a brain..

http://www.joelertola.com/tutorials/brain/index.html