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PAIN OR PEACE

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A new study demonstrates religiously inspired pain relief in Catholic individuals, accompanied by changes in a pain-regulating brain region. Participants viewed images taken from paintings either of a woman depicted by Leonardo da Vinci, left, or of the Virgin Mary, right, before and during applications of painful electrical pulses. Full StoryCredit: Wiech, et al.

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