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Author: Nafissa Ismail, School of Psychology

• Cerebro-Vascular Accidents and Behavioural Recovery Laboratory
• Child and Adult Relationships and Environments Laboratory
• Childhood Cognition and Learning Laboratory
• Childhood Thinking Laboratory
• Children's Well-Being Laboratory
• Cognition and Anxiety Disorders Research Laboratory
• Cognition and Anxiety Studies Laboratory
• Cognition and Emotion Laboratory
• Cognitive Aging and Driving Laboratory
• Couple Research Laboratory
• Developmental Methodology Laboratory
• GAP-Santé
• Healthy Aging Research Program (HARP) Laboratory
• Human Motivation Research Laboratory
• Human Sexuality Research Laboratory
• Individual and Social Influences of Technology Laboratory (InSITe)
• Laboratory for research on Achievement, Motivation, and the Regulation of Action
• Laboratory for computational neurodynamics and cognition
• Laboratory of Personality and Social Psychology
• Language Development Laboratory
• Mental Health for Everyone
• Neuropsychology Laboratory
• NeuroImmunology, Stress, and Endocrinology (NISE) Laboratory
• Neuroscience Memory Laboratory
• Ottawa Social Moral Development Lab
• Psychosocial Oncology Laboratory
• Psychotherapy Practice Research Network (PPRNet)
• Relationship and Couple Health (ReaCH) Laboratory
• Sleep Research Laboratory
• Social and Organizational Psychology Research Laboratory
• Ottawa Social Moral Development Lab.
• uOttawa Living Lab
• Visual Cognition Research Laboratory
• Vulnerability, Trauma, Resilience and Culture Research Laboratory

Canada Research Chair

• Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Disparities

University Research Chair

• University Research Chair in Stress and Mental Health

Endowed Research Chair

• McLaughlin Research Chair on Psychosocial Aspects of Risk and Health
• CHEO Research Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health

Faculty Research Chair

• Faculty Research Chair in Community Mental Health and Homelessness
• Faculty Research Chair in Francophonie, Literacy and Society

Research Group

• Sex and Anxiety Research Group (SAX-RG)
• Strategic Decision-Making Research Group

Study and Research Laboratory

• QUIBB: Quantitative Investigation of Brain and Behavior