A special podcast from the 2016 APA meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, featuring items on the Syrian refugee crisis, cannabis legislation, US gun laws, and mental health at the movies, as well as a special interview with new President Maria Oquendo.

The Lancet Psychiatry Editor Niall Boyce talks to authors Vikram Patel and Michael Phillips about the mental health care needs of two countries undergoing massive social and economic change.

Andrew Bianchi and Gwen Adshead discuss whether we can really change our minds, and Jules Morgan talks to the founders of Mental Snapp—a new digital innovation in mental health.

Highlights from SIRS 2016, including online support for carers, machine learning for prognosis and management, new insights into the neurobiology of schizophrenia, and a special item on anti-NMDAR encephalitis with Susannah Cahalan, author of New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire.

Does traditional healing have a role in treating mental illness? Niall Boyce discusses the question with Gareth Nortje, author of a new systematic review.

Niall Boyce and Emily Holmes discuss the start of a Lancet Psychiatry Commission on psychological treatment research.

Lancet Psychiatry Editor Niall Boyce and researcher Professor Philip McGuire discuss how psychiatrists might one day use technology to personalise patient care.

Meng-Chuan Lai and Simon Baron-Cohen discuss the identification of autism spectrum conditions in adulthood with Lancet Psychiatry Editor Niall Boyce

Niall Boyce and Hannah Cagney discuss a new Lancet Psychiatry Series and Editorial on childhood and bullying.

Editor Niall Boyce and Lucy Bowes discuss an observational study identifying an association between goth sub-culture and self-harm and depression.