THE pain of emotional rejection is played out in the brain as though it is genuine physical suffering, claimed a study from California last week (see “Rejection really does hurt”). One person for whom this won’t have been news is Raymond Damadian, the American scientist and business executive who says he has been robbed of a share of this year’s Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
In case you hadn’t heard, the prize was awarded to Paul Lauterbur of the University of Illinois and Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham for their contributions to developing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. But Damadian insists that…
