Dandruff — or seborrheic dermatitis more broadly — is usually caused by an inflammatory reaction to Malassezia furfur, a yeast that lives and grows on everyone’s skin. Adigun says that those who ...

Hypopigmentation can also from when there's been an overproduction of a yeast on the skin called malassezia furfur (which causes the condition tinea versicolor) as well as "vitiligo, which is an ...

Nikki A. Levin, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA. Note: The author reported no actual or potential ...

A 40-year-old man presented with a 1-year history of a red scaly eruption in the scalp, behind the ears, and in the nasal alae. The eruption in the scalp was slightly pruritic. There was relative ...