• Meditation can ease feelings of loneliness and enhance a person’s physical health.
• Eating disorders could be linked to a genetic predisposition passed down from mothers to daughters.
• The previously accepted treatment method of keeping close contact with a young person during the “high-risk” period after they attempt suicide has been found to be ineffective.
• Women with Alzheimer’s mentally deteriorate faster than men who have the disease.

Heather Rudow is a staff writer for Counseling Today. Email her at hrudow@counseling.org.