Hannah Berg

Psychology

N218 Elliott Hall

75 East River Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Psychology

Links

ANGST Lab

Google Scholar Profile

I am a PhD candidate in clinical science and psychopathology research. I study decision-making in anxiety disorders using neuroscience and experimental fear-conditioning techniques. In particular, my work investigates how decisions to avoid threats arise from brain processes, and the impact of fear and anxiety on these processes.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

B.A.: Psychology and Music, Vanderbilt University, 2016

Specialties

Anxiety disorders
Anxiety-related decision making
Neuroimaging
Generalization of conditioned fear

Publications

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Publications

Berg, H., Ma., Y., Rueter, A., Kaczkurkin, A., Burton, P. C., DeYoung., C. G., MacDonald, A. W., Sponheim, S., & Lissek, S. (2020). Salience and central executive networks track overgeneralization of conditioned fear in post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychological Medicine, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720001166
Lissek, S., & Berg, H. (in press). Learning Models of PTSD. In J. G. Beck & D. M. Sloan (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Berg, H., Ballard, E. D., Luckenbaugh, D. A., Nugent, A. C., Ionescu, D. F., & Zarate, C. A., Jr. (2016). Recognition of emotional facial expressions in anxious and nonanxious depression. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 70, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2016.06.007
Olatunji, B. O., Berg, H., Cox, R. C., & Billingsley, A. (2017). The effects of cognitive reappraisal on conditioned disgust in contamination-based OCD: an analogue study. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 51C, 86-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2017.06.005
Jessup, S. C., Knowles, K. A., Berg, H., & Olatunji, B. O. (2019). Anger rumination is not uniquely characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Personality and Individual Differences, 140, 10–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.09.011
Olatunji, B. O., Berg, H., & Zhao, Z. (2015). Emotional regulation of fear and disgust: Differential effects of reappraisal and suppression. Cognition and Emotion, 12, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1110117

Awards

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Awards

Brain Imaging Grant, “Assessing Brain-Based Predictors of Neutralization Behaviors in OCD,” College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2018 - 2020
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2020 - 2021
Department of Psychology Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2016 - 2017
Jum C. Nunnally Research Award, Vanderbilt University, 2016
David T. Lykken Memorial Graduate Fellowship, 2017, 2018
Brain Imaging Grant, “Elucidating the Structural Circuits of Fear Generalization,” College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2020 - 2022

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