article_snippet: Neuroscientists based at Manchester University and the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, have studied the brains of sea slugs as Neuroscientists based at Manchester University and the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago move.
article_snippet: Researchers studied the brains of the sea slug Aplysia (pictured above), which have around 18,000 neurons .
article_snippet: Sea slugs have just 18,000 neurons in Sea slugs entire nervous systems yet have been found to be remarkably similar to other organisms.
article_snippet: Previous research has shown that Sea slugs can form memories and signal muscle movements in the same way as higher organisms.
article_snippet: The scientists studied neurons in the ganglion area of the brains of sea slugs, shown in the image above .
article_snippet: In the new research, which is published in the journal Neuron, the team of scientists were able to map how the large neurons in the brains of the sea slug Aplysia as the team of scientists moved.
article_snippet: Led by Angela Burno from the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, the researchers were able to do this by using a voltage sensitive dye and detecting the tiny spikes in current that occurred in the slugs' brains as the nerves that drive the researchers muscles fired.
article_snippet: the researchers say the slugs' could provide a useful analogy for when studying human brains.
highlights_snippet: Scientists at Manchester University studied brains of the Apylsia sea slug .
  
highlights_snippet: Sea slug brains share some of the complex structures of higher organisms .
  
highlights_snippet: Sea slug brains found neurons formed groups that were laid out like tiles in the brain .
  