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This case series describes young men with mild scalp psoriasis and a family history of androgenetic alopecia who exhibit a compulsive behavior of preserving scalp scales, highlighting a potential body-focused repetitive behavior.

This article reviews the psychodynamic factors and treatment options for dysmorphophobia, highlighting the need for intensive psychotherapy, and introduces the concept of "Dorian Gray Syndrome.

This article proposes a new classification, the Obsessive-Compulsive Insight Continuum, to help dermatologists better understand and diagnose skin disorders with obsessive-compulsive features.

This article discusses body-focused repetitive behaviors like trichotillomania and excoriation disorder, noting their higher prevalence than previously thought and the importance of dermatologic and psychiatric assessment in treatment; it reports no new clinical results.

This study discusses how beauty standards contribute to structural injustice by imposing rising demands and increasing body image anxiety across various demographics.

This study among Indian patients who underwent cosmetic procedures found that these treatments generally improved their interpersonal relationships with family and peers, with a noted gender difference in perceptions of facial image.

This study found that 29.6% of patients seeking treatment for hair loss meet the criteria for hair-related body dysmorphic disorder, significantly higher than in general dermatology patients.

This review discusses OCD spectrum disorders with dermatological symptoms, emphasizing their clinical features, neurobiology, and treatment options, while noting the need for more controlled studies.

Recognizing IPPP is crucial to prevent misdiagnosis and unnecessary treatments.

Analysts should confront their biases and self-interests to improve therapy.

This case report documents a rare instance of body-focused repetitive behavior in a 37-year-old male physician who compulsively pulled hair from his thighs due to exam stress, highlighting the variability in presentation and demographics of such disorders and the potential for psychiatric comorbidity.

In this study, women with polycystic ovary syndrome showed higher scores in character strengths like hope and judgement compared to those without PCOS.

This study found that dental students' manual dexterity was weakly associated with their performance in skills-based assessments, while self-perceived skill levels showed no significant correlation with assessment outcomes, suggesting a potential benefit from focusing on dexterity enhancement in dental education.

The document concludes that ideal facial proportions are guided by specific measurements and symmetry to enhance beauty, but individual characteristics must be considered.

This consensus statement discusses guidelines for screening, diagnosing, and treating the Female Athlete Triad, and introduces a risk stratification system to assist healthcare providers with sports participation decisions.

This article reviews trichotillomania, highlighting its differences from OCD and recommending treatments like habit reversal therapy and specific medications, but reports no new clinical results.

This study found that psychological and social reporting after trauma with scarring can indicate a person's reaction and susceptibility to psychopathology.

In this paper, the authors provide recommendations for primary care practitioners on evaluating and treating pediatric hair loss, emphasizing the importance of early diagnosis to prevent permanent scarring alopecia by classifying causes into acquired or congenital origins.

In this study, a mixed-methods survey of 357 balding men revealed that baldness is structurally stigmatized, with many participants experiencing distress and using treatments to combat it; others resisted stigma and expressed minimal distress.

This article reviews the psychiatric conditions associated with HIV, highlighting the bidirectional relationship and management challenges but presents no new research findings.

This study highlights a complex link between hair care and HFRBDs and suggests that personalized hair care strategies could improve condition management and be integrated into professional guidance by clinicians and hair experts.

This scoping review reports that while empirical evidence suggests an overlap between Long/Post Covid-19 syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear, highlighting the need for standardized definitions and rigorous methodologies in Long Covid research.

This review found that hair transplantation can positively impact self-esteem and emotional well-being when patients are properly screened for psychological risk factors, but inadequate screening may lead to dissatisfaction or worsened mental health.

This study found that adults with trichotillomania or skin picking disorder experienced significantly poorer sleep quality, which was linked to various factors including age, stress, distress tolerance, impulsivity, and comorbid mental disorders.

In this study, a multidisciplinary psychodermatology service treating children and young people with compulsive hair pulling reported varied success, with 45.4% achieving complete resolution and 36.4% seeing substantial improvement, suggesting a hybrid care model may benefit patient engagement and therapy outcomes.

This study found that many paper titles, especially in the Archives of Dermatology and British Journal of Dermatology, had scientific imprecisions, with "minimization" being the most common.

In this case study, a 37-year-old man with chronic hair loss and vertex baldness experienced significant hair regrowth, increased density, and improved appearance after receiving combined homoeopathic and aesthetic treatments, resulting in nearly complete coverage of bald areas.

This study found that 7.9% of dermatological outpatients at a German hospital had clinically relevant body dysmorphic concerns, highlighting the need for psychotherapeutic support due to poor social adaptation and high motivation for change.

This article examines how makeover television programs reflect and reinforce patriarchal ideals of beauty and identity in women's body image, without presenting new empirical findings.

This paper proposes integrating Aesthetic Health Psychology into aesthetic medicine to enhance ethical practice and improve patient-reported outcomes by using a comprehensive, interdisciplinary framework.