ITALY: Researchers show beautiful art sooths pain
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 it is true - pain is in the mind - it is our brain that tells us something hurts. So, maybe recent Italian university research claiming to prove that patients looking at beautiful works of art really suffer less pain than those looking at a bare wall or water jug maybe onto something.
Research coordinated by the Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences Department, the University of Bari, in Italy, has found that looking at beautiful art lowers pain ...
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