Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W., 11/11/12

Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University Schools of Social Work and Public Health

In addition to increasing the pace of expansion and improvement of the VA's mental health services, efforts need to be made to ensure that older veterans as well as veterans of current wars benefit.

Joseph Bobrow, 11/10/12

Founder and president, Coming Home Project

Meditation is mobilizing attentiveness on purpose. What we pay attention to grows, like watering a newly-planted tree. As we use this capacity for awareness it grows stronger, a kind of meditative muscle.

Lisa Earle McLeod, 11/10/12

Sales Leadership Expert- Author Selling with Noble Purpose

It's easy to think that it's other people who are driving you crazy, but in reality, it's your reaction to other people that causes the angst. Sometimes we don't even need other people. We can work ourselves up into a lather over our own messes.

Gregg McBride, 11/10/12

Author, screenwriter and blogger

Those who know me won't be surprised that one of my go-to items for a "hit" of autumn is an edible -- well, drinkable -- one. For years now, I've been addicted (potential 12-step-group-addicted) to Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Lattes (or, as I refer to them, "fall in a cup").

Lisa Belkin, 11/09/12

Senior Columnist on Life/Work/Family, The Huffington Post

When you have been together for 25 years, friends start to ask for advice. I have none. I don't presume to know what makes a relationship work -- all I have is some vague idea of what might possibly make mine work.

Michael F. Jacobson, 11/09/12

Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest

The Obama administration should use the next four years to pursue even more aggressive initiatives that make our food supply safer, our kids better protected from junk-food marketers, and our diets healthier

Rob Schware, 11/09/12

Executive Director, Give Back Yoga Foundation, President, Yoga Service Council

My hope is that the yoga community can continue to collaborate to bring the benefits of yoga to those who lack access and the funds to reap those benefits.

Kate Fridkis, 11/09/12

Blogger, Eat The Damn Cake

I'm not exercising at all. And I should be. Because that is what conscientious people who respect their bodies do. Sex doesn't count. Does it count? Should I do it more aerobically? How?

Elisa Port, M.D., 11/09/12

Chief of Breast Surgery, Mount Sinai; Co-Director, Dubin Breast Center

In the last decades we have made much progress toward identifying and characterizing the pathways that lead to cancer development, but we also know that we have only just skimmed the surface of potential targeted therapy.

Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D., 11/09/12

Author, 'Sustainable Happiness: The Mind Science of Wellbeing, Altruism and Inspiration'

As an exploding body of clinical research confirms that mindfulness helps reduce stress and promote healing, learning and neuroplasticity, a parallel line of study on the practice of loving-kindness has begun to converge with exciting new research on positive emotions and the brain.

Oren Frank, 11/09/12

Co-founder and CEO, talktala

"Mental health" needs a new narrative -- a fresh, contemporary point of view about our daily lives and challenges.

David Wallinga, M.D., 11/09/12

Prescribing a healthier food system.

A Harvard study recently published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine associates a mother's low level exposure to mercury while pregnant with greater risk of her child later developing ADHD-related behavior.

Kara Gorski, Ph.D., 11/08/12

Economist, entrepreneur and breast cancer survivor.

When I discovered my own breast cancer, I immediately felt condemned to the journey my mother had walked almost 30 years before.

Brian Secemsky, M.D., 11/08/12

Resident Physician

Here are the two most common issues that have come up during conversations that only break the surface of what we as physicians can work on when it comes to enhancing the relationship between nurses and doctors.

Susana Duncan, M.D., 11/08/12

Doctor and Science Editor

As I reflect on why this wave of opiate addiction is so rapidly gaining hold in America, I realize that the answer lies in the new realities of how doctors must practice to earn their livelihood.

Arianna Huffington, 11/08/12

Stress -- it's one of the most harmful forces in our lives. It can damage our health, our relationships, our careers, our marriages and even curb our creativity. That's why I'm happy to announce that all 13 of our lifestyle sections -- from Travel and Parents to Weddings and Divorce -- have an editorial mission to help our readers travel with less stress, parent with less stress, get married with less stress and, yes, get divorced with less stress. And today our books section is launching "Turn the Page on Stress," a HuffPost Books project tapping into the de-stressing potential of books and storytelling, opening up the conversation to HuffPost editors, our community of bloggers and authors with insights on the written word's unique capacity to transport and transform. Even with all the high-tech gadgets at our disposal, the timeless act of reading is a way to connect with ideas and with the past, but also with ourselves.

Vivian Diller, Ph.D., 11/08/12

Psychologist and author, 'Face It'

In this age of anxiety, there seems to be, after all, a deep yearning for genuine human connection and real-life interaction devoid of electronic distraction. The question is, will future generations have the capacity to attain it and sustain it?