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Them understand what that slippery line is? and also, is this stuff that's been discovered because of the advances and the pet scans and mris and the different brain m imaging we can now do? >> well, yeah, let me give you a perfect example. fear and anxiety. it's something we all experience, it's part of our human nature, and that's because our brains evolved to be able to detect danger and to avoid harm. and that's -- you know, it's so fundamental that we have circuits in the brain, and as you say, using brain imaging we can now look at those circuits in action. what happens when somebody has...

Particularly the researchers find those who were anxious, quote unquote, what they call anxious before or what they call neurotic. they are invested in emotions that for the rest of us we find somewhat troubling. for those folks it can help them perform on certain tests. i work with people with true anxiety it's no party. panic disorder or terrible obsessive compulsive disorder, that's what anxiety really is. they are describing like agitation of a kind of, you know, delightful variety, if you will. jenna: one of the neuroscientists say in defense of this study is there is a difference between...

Some 4000 feet underground in chile, in part of a collapsed mine. we have learned it could be nearly christmas before those miners actually get to see the light of day. but what could being stuck that far underground for that length of time do to their mental state in let's bring in psychologist dr. keith ablow, a member of the fox news medical a teevment dr. ablow, it's my understanding these men have not even been told it could be christmas before they get back above ground. >> that's right. this is unprecedented in certain ways. this is a space, 600 square feet, 33 miners, in terribly humid...