This issue features groups of papers dealing with ethnic and transcultural psychiatry, psychopathology in adolescents and their parents, and nicotine withdrawal, together with three papers on other issues, respectively severely mentally ill patients in residential facilities in Italy, interferon-induced cognitive changes, and persistence of impairment in personality disorders. The lead review article by Verdoux et al. (pp. 307–315) reviews studies addressing the question of whether dependence on benzodiazepines, drugs well known to produce cognitive effects when administered currently, is followed by enduring cognitive deficits after withdrawal.