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This review discusses physician-patient dynamics in managing hair loss and highlights the emotional impacts, emphasizing the need for effective communication and patient education, but it reports no new clinical findings.

This review discusses the nocebo effect in dermatology, highlighting its mechanisms, implications, and strategies to manage it, but does not provide new clinical research findings.

Negative expectations can cause adverse effects in patients even without active treatment, and managing this nocebo effect involves better communication and patient-clinician relationships.

In this study, patients informed about finasteride's potential sexual side effects reported a significantly higher occurrence of these side effects, suggesting a nocebo effect.

This review suggests a causal relationship between finasteride, used for hair loss, and persistent neuropsychiatric side effects like depression, citing evidence that fulfills key causality criteria and calls for cautious use along with strengthened regulatory oversight.