The Spanish Parliament has voted to extend certain rights to apes, according to this news story from Reuters. The Great Ape Project seems to have been highly influential in prompting the action: The new resolutions have cross-party or majority support......

The Associated Press is reporting on the results of a psilocybin study. Apparently, one year after taking the drug, many experimental subjects report that the drug has had a profound, enduring, and seemingly beneficial effect on their lives: The drug,......

Greg Miller at AAAS has written a very interesting article in the June 13, 2008 issue of Science magazine, entitled "Growing Pains for fMRI" (subscription required, I'm afraid). The article addresses the recent controversy over efforts to make inferences about......

Today's NYT has an op-ed by Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt on how certain false beliefs can be sticky, in part because we retain certain memories without retaining the source of the memory (a phenomenon dubbed "source amnesia"). An excerpt:......

Some noteworthy links for Neuroethics & Law Blog readers, particular the first two: (1) Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution on the New Yorker article on itching (and much more) (2) Vaughan Bell at MindHacks on the "fMRI Smackdown" (3) Bruce......