article_snippet: The complexity of the human brain - with its 86 billion neurons - has puzzled scientists ever since the Greek philosopher Plato attempted to understand how the Greek philosopher Plato worked.
article_snippet: Now researchers are claiming that our brains may in fact be far simpler than had previously been believed - and the Greek philosopher Plato took research on sea slugs to reveal the Greek philosopher Plato.
article_snippet: Researchers brains, while far smaller than our own, share some of the complex structures of higher organisms while some of the complex structures of higher organisms neurons are large and easy to observe.
article_snippet: Researchers found that rather than creating a mass of confusing signals that appear in scans of the human brain, Researchers were able to see neurons acting as groups.
article_snippet: The groundbreaking research was able to identify identify neural fingerprints of specific memories, distinguishing brain activity patterns produced when viewing a picture of a necklace, say, from a picture of Marilyn Monroe.
article_snippet: The groundbreaking research  say that similar patterns exist in the brains of other organisms, including humans, but are scaled up by millions of times.
article_snippet: Dr Mark Humphries, a Medical Research Council fellow at the University of Birmingham who was involved in The groundbreaking research , said: 'What happens in the brain during movement is currently only well understood for small, dedicated neural circuits. '
article_snippet: The groundbreaking research  introduces new methods for pulling apart neural circuits to expose their inner building blocks. '
article_snippet: Our methods could be used to help understand how brain networks change in disease states and how drugs act to restore normal brain function.'
article_snippet: Until recently scientists have had to study brain activity by looking at the action of individual neurons using electrodes.
article_snippet: Even sophisticated brain scanning technology like functional magnetic resonance fails to provide a clear picture of how the brain is organised beyond the brain physical structures.
article_snippet: The human brain (shown in the model above) is known to have specific structures that perform different roles but how neurons are organised within those has remained a mystery as studying those as those work is difficult .
article_snippet: the researchers found there were four classes of neural ensembles that behaved in different ways - oscillatory, bursters, pausers and those where there was no strong activity.
article_snippet: Until now scientists have had to study electrical signals of individual neurons or the whole brain (like above)
article_snippet: This collaboration has created an approach that cuts the time taken to map neural networks from years to a few hours.'
highlights_snippet: Scientists at Manchester University created maps that let Scientists at Manchester University look at neuron networks across the brain .
  
highlights_snippet: Findings suggest the brain is organised in less complex way than believed .
  
highlights_snippet: Researchers say the brain could help Researchers unpick how the human brain works .