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... assessment of the skinsdisorder carried out by a dermatologist and psychologicalsassessment of emotional profile using the test Profile ofsMood States (POMS) and the Toronto Alexithymia ScalesTAS-20 =-=[21,22]-=-.sSeverity of psoriasis was evaluated using the PASIsscore, which gives an overall estimate of the extent andsintensity of lesions over the entire skin surface. The se-sverity of seborrheic dermatitis...

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...seases, but that it is diagnosed in a purely generic sense.sIndeed, all previous studies investigated only the pres-sence or absence of depression, or, at best, evaluated thissdisorder quantitatively =-=[5,6]-=-. In contrast, the organizationsof emotions is qualitatively different, in the compositionsof the clinical framework, between groups of skin disorders, and the difference in this organization appears ...

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...in cases of “subthreshold depression” [7].sSeborrheic dermatitis and psoriasis, both characterizedsby chronic inflammation of skin with erythema and desquamation, have been linked to emotional states =-=[8,9]-=-.sA few studies have investigated seborrheic dermatitissfrom a psychological perspective, showing that 76% ofspatients report stress, depression and fatigue to be thesfactors triggering the onset of t...

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...seases, but that it is diagnosed in a purely generic sense.sIndeed, all previous studies investigated only the pres-sence or absence of depression, or, at best, evaluated thissdisorder quantitatively =-=[5,6]-=-. In contrast, the organizationsof emotions is qualitatively different, in the compositionsof the clinical framework, between groups of skin disorders, and the difference in this organization appears ...

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...eart-sened, Without help, Worthless, Terrified, Sorry for thingssdone) to delineate the composition of this factor in eachsof the two groups. We decided to use factorial analysis tosachieve this goal =-=[23]-=-. The KMO test for the measure ofssampling adequacy was 0.644 (best >0.600) The resultssproved the adequacy of the distribution, allowing us tosproceed with the exploratory factorial analysis. Thescom...

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...6% ofspatients report stress, depression and fatigue to be thesfactors triggering the onset of the disease [10].sSome studies have focused on the causal link betweensinflammation and emotional stress =-=[11,12]-=-. Evidencessupporting the correlation between mood and seborrheicsdermatitis is provided by studies that show a high inci-sdence of this disease in psychiatric patients sufferingsfrom depression or ot...

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...titis;sPsoriasis; Emotionss1. INTRODUCTIONsPsychosomatic skin disorders are those in which thesetiopathogenesis of cutaneous alterations can be traced tosa substantial extent to psychological factors =-=[1]-=-.sPatients with dermatological problems often presentsmood disorders (mainly depression), anxiety disorderssand psychological conditions relevant to psychosomaticsconditions such as demoralisation, ir...

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...cal framework, between groups of skin disorders, and the difference in this organization appears evensif subjects do not manifest a specific clinical disease, assin cases of “subthreshold depression” =-=[7]-=-.sSeborrheic dermatitis and psoriasis, both characterizedsby chronic inflammation of skin with erythema and desquamation, have been linked to emotional states [8,9].sA few studies have investigated se...

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...in cases of “subthreshold depression” [7].sSeborrheic dermatitis and psoriasis, both characterizedsby chronic inflammation of skin with erythema and desquamation, have been linked to emotional states =-=[8,9]-=-.sA few studies have investigated seborrheic dermatitissfrom a psychological perspective, showing that 76% ofspatients report stress, depression and fatigue to be thesfactors triggering the onset of t...

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...dies have investigated seborrheic dermatitissfrom a psychological perspective, showing that 76% ofspatients report stress, depression and fatigue to be thesfactors triggering the onset of the disease =-=[10]-=-.sSome studies have focused on the causal link betweensinflammation and emotional stress [11,12]. Evidencessupporting the correlation between mood and seborrheicsdermatitis is provided by studies that...

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...6% ofspatients report stress, depression and fatigue to be thesfactors triggering the onset of the disease [10].sSome studies have focused on the causal link betweensinflammation and emotional stress =-=[11,12]-=-. Evidencessupporting the correlation between mood and seborrheicsdermatitis is provided by studies that show a high inci-sdence of this disease in psychiatric patients sufferingsfrom depression or ot...

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...csdermatitis is provided by studies that show a high inci-sdence of this disease in psychiatric patients sufferingsfrom depression or other diagnostic frames, e.g. anxiety,shostility and somatization =-=[13]-=-. Psoriasis has also beens*Funding sources: None.sConflict of interest: All authors declare that they have no conflict of in-sterest.s#Corresponding author.sOPEN ACCESSsS. Settineri et al. / Open Jour...

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... assessment of the skinsdisorder carried out by a dermatologist and psychologicalsassessment of emotional profile using the test Profile ofsMood States (POMS) and the Toronto Alexithymia ScalesTAS-20 =-=[21,22]-=-.sSeverity of psoriasis was evaluated using the PASIsscore, which gives an overall estimate of the extent andsintensity of lesions over the entire skin surface. The se-sverity of seborrheic dermatitis...

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...n the case of psoriasis. This underlines that in this disease the expression ofsdepression contains many of the core symptoms of depression and thus is clinically closer to that of “majorsdepression” =-=[24]-=-. In contrast, the depression manifestedsby seborrheic dermatitis patients is closer to the clinicalsframe of “minor depression” (see Factor 1 in Table 4).sThe other two factors shown in Table 4 stren...