PSYCHOLOGICAL-PSYCHIATRIC CONSEQUENCES OF ALOPECIA: A STUDY OF PATIENTS’ COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING

The purpose of the work is to study the features of cognitive functioning of patients withdifferent types of alopecia, to understand the targets of medical and psychological rehabilitation of this contingent.The study included 153 women diagnosed with diffuse alopecia. Depending on the stateof the mental sphere and the genesis of alopecia, 6 subgroups were formed: patients withmetabolic alopecia without signs of maladaptation-G1-1 (30 patients), with metabolic alopecia with individual signs of maladaptation (risk group)-G1-2 (9), with metabolic alopecia andthe presence of adaptation disorders-G1-3 (6 patients), with mixed alopecia without signsof maladaptation-G2-1 (15 patients), with mixed alopecia with separate signs of maladaptation(risk group)-G2-2 (64) and with mixed adaptation and adaptation disorders-G2-3 (29 patients).Affection of patients with alopecia by disorders of cognitive functioning is significant, andmore significant in patients with mixed alopecia.The most common symptoms from the cognitive sphere are rapid fatigue, decreased performance, and impaired concentration.In both metabolic and mixed alopecia patients, cognitive impairment was more oftendetected in patients with adaptation disorders, and less often in patients at risk and withoutsigns of PD. At the same time, the patterns of cognitive impairment in alopecia are complex,nonlinear, and require further study.Prospects for further research are related to the search for connections between cognitiveimpairment in different forms of alopecia with various clinical and psychosocial factors, as wellas the development of personalized measures to correct cognitive impairment in the structureof medical and psychological rehabilitation of patients with alopecia.