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This editorial reviews the concept of central sensitization and central sensitivity syndromes, discussing their potential role linking various chronic conditions, but it reports no new clinical findings.

Alopecia linked to higher anxiety and personality disorders.

This case study highlights the challenges inpatient psychiatric teams face in managing end-of-life care for patients with advanced Alzheimer's, particularly in honoring DNR/DNI orders and coordinating hospice transfers.

Treatments for autoimmune hair loss have limited success and patients need emotional support and self-acceptance.

This review discusses the complication of vitiligo in patients undergoing diphencyprone sensitization therapy for alopecia universalis and reports no new clinical findings.

Finasteride caused serious side effects and led to six suicides.

This study explored how men's perceived height and androgenetic alopecia affect social and personality impressions, reporting a potential "attractiveness malus" but noting limitations due to an older dataset, selective sample, and cultural homogeneity among raters.

This article is a letter to the editor discussing a case of extensive cicatricial alopecia in a patient with long-term trichotillomania and reports no new research findings.

This case report describes irreversible alopecia universalis following discontinuation of Peg-IFN/RBV treatment for chronic hepatitis C, highlighting potential autoimmune side effects of interferon-based therapies.

This study found that both alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia moderately impacted patients' quality of life, affecting not only physiological but also emotional and social aspects.

This article reviews the relationship between the skin and the immune system and discusses how skin manifestations can indicate immunodeficiencies but reports no new research findings.

This study found that androgenic alopecia significantly impairs quality of life among adults, with higher impairment observed in males and those who are employed.

This study found that individuals with alopecia areata in Malaysian tertiary hospitals who are unmarried and have diabetes are more likely to experience a poorer quality of life, based on their Dermatology Life Quality Index scores.

This article presents a rare case of cicatricial alopecia in a 59-year-old woman after using the epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor gefitinib.

This study examined family functioning, psychopathology, and quality of life in children and adolescents with alopecia areata, analyzing their relationships with sociodemographic and disease-related variables.

In this study, researchers found that acne, melasma, vitiligo, and atopic dermatitis significantly impact anxiety, depression, loneliness, and quality of life, while alopecia does not have a significant effect.

This review found that commercial influences may affect how male baldness is represented as a disease and how treatment options are presented, often omitting limitations.

Lack of protein causes hair root damage, but it can be reversed by eating protein again.

This study provides a framework for understanding different types of alopecias based on immune privilege collapse at specific follicular sites, revealing distinct patterns in immune effector programs and stromal influences depending on the alopecia type.

This study found that due to variability in measurements, hair pluckability is not a reliable indicator of adult nutritional status, although it may hold potential in certain emergency situations if improved for consistency.

This study found that maternal iron-restricted diets increased alopecia incidence in IL-10-deficient mouse pups with mast cells, implicating mast cells as potential effectors in this process.

This study explored how chronic hair pulling behavior serves as a coping mechanism among African American women, particularly through the lens of eroticism, but reports on narratives rather than clinical results.

In this study, researchers examined the relationship between stress resistance and coping strategies in 87 operational law enforcement officers, finding a positive correlation with "Active coping" and negative correlations with strategies like "Mental withdrawal" and "Denial," which may inform programs to enhance stress resistance.

Finasteride can cause muscle weakness and eye movement issues, even at low doses.

This letter reports on the impact wigs may have on the perceived quality of life in patients with androgenetic alopecia.

This case report about anterolateral leg alopecia discusses a potentially underreported condition with no new clinical results available.

In this study, hair changes like diffuse alopecia and anagen effluvium were common among cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, highlighting the need for prior counselling to reduce patient anxiety.

This study found that women with androgenetic alopecia reported more psychosocial problems and lower self-esteem than women with non-visible skin conditions and men with androgenetic alopecia, which they attributed to their hair loss.

This article reviews hair loss in elderly women, discussing common forms, diagnostic challenges, and the limited effectiveness of current treatments, but presents no new clinical findings.

This study suggests that the hairless gene encodes a nuclear factor important for hair follicle integrity, and its absence leads to hair follicle loss and defects in tissue development.