BEAUTIFUL ART SOOTHS PAIN BRAINWAVES, ITALIAN RESEARCHERS CLAIM
September 1st, 2008
BY MONICA DOBIE
PAIN is all in the mind. That's what a hard taskmaster on a sports field might say. But of course pain is in the mind - it is our brain telling us something hurts. So, maybe recent Italian research claiming patients looking at beautiful art really suffer less than those looking at a bare wall or water jug maybe right.
The researchers from the Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences Department, the University of Bari, in Italy, lead by neurologist Dr Marina de Tommaso, asked 12 men and 12 women to pick 20 paintings they considered most ugly and most ...
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