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. 2019 Oct 15;8(10):1690. doi: 10.3390/jcm8101690

Figure 6.

Figure 6

This zoomed section of data shows that significant global vasoconstriction starts when the subjects is informed that “the pain stimulation will start in about two minutes” with additional decreases corresponding to each of the heat pulses. Clearly, anticipation of pain, as well as pain itself, causes vasoconstriction.