A doctor before she became an educator, Maria Montessori developed strategies ... Her father, an accountant, urged her to take that path, but her mother supported Maria’s insistence, at age ...

Nemisha Hiraman, a behavioural analyst, play therapist and director of a Montessori ... sensory integration, language development, and social engagement can help form vital neural pathways ...

Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

Information about bodily sensations like pain, touch, itch, and movement gets conveyed from the periphery to the brain via the ascending sensory pathway. Disruptions to this pathway, caused by ...

The peripheral sensation of pain travels to the brain in a relay involving nerve cells, or neurons, centered in four different regions of the ascending sensory pathway: the dorsal root ganglion ...

Scientists created a model of the human pain pathway in a dish by connecting four separate brain organoids. The feat should ...

Researchers integrated four organoids that represent the four components of the human sensory pathway, along which pain signals are conveyed to the brain. Stimulation of the sensory organoid (top ...

Well, now, scientists have reconstructed one of the sensory pathways that convey these pain signals all in a dish. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports. JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: Pain signals often start on the ...