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Lab Director:
Hannah Berg, PhD
The Berg Lab at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) in Tulsa, OK, directed by Dr. Hannah Berg, is a research laboratory with the goal of improving treatments for anxiety-related and obsessive-compulsive disorders. We investigate how the human brain responds to threats, and the complex ways this can influence our behavior. Our mission is to improve mental health through neuroscience.
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If you are interested in joining our team or participating in a research study, click here. To learn more about our team, click here. To read about our mission and recent publications, click here. For lab news and updates, see below.
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Lab News
10/15/2025 📣 NEW PREPRINT! 📣 "Slowed extinction of repetitive threat-neutralization behavior in anxiety-related disorders: Effects from a novel fear-conditioning paradigm." Adults with anxiety disorders, compared to those without anxiety disorders, showed more repetitive threat-neutralization behavior to safe stimuli that were formerly dangerous.​
10/10/25 Dr. Berg and Riley presented our latest work at the Zarrow Mental Health Symposium, hosted by Mental Health Association Oklahoma. We had a well-attended talk with lots of discussion on how our results relate to treatment of OCD and anxiety-related disorders.
​7/31/25 LIBR Research Day featured a talk (Riley) and two posters (Annette, Nate) from the Berg Lab! Congrats to Nate on winning the Judges' Choice Award!
6/1/24 Welcome to our LASR intern, Nate!
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​4/13/25 📣 NEW PREPRINT! 📣 "The Tap-To-Safety Task: A Novel fMRI Paradigm Assessing Repetitive Threat-Neutralization." The Tap-To-Safety Task is a tool that assesses repetitive threat-neutralization behavior - repetitive, effortful actions we take to prevent a feared outcome. This tool will enable us to identify patterns of brain activity underlying clinically-relevant behaviors such as compulsions in OCD, and how they relate to symptom maintenance and improvement.
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8/27/24 Welcome to our new volunteer, Annette!
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6/3/24 Welcome to our new research assistant, Riley!
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3/20/24 As part of LIBR's Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Award, sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, we will be assessing the neural underpinnings of compulsion-like behavior in adults with and without obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).​
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1/30/24 We receive LIBR pilot funding to develop the Tap-To-Safety Task.​
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1/2/24 The Berg Lab is launched at LIBR!
