What We Do

Operating Mission and Philosophy

• The mission of the AIBL is to increase our understanding of the nature of anxiety and related disorders and to contribute to the development and empirical evaluation of methods for their treatment

• The AIBL is a teaching laboratory, with a focus on training advanced undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees in the development of scientific values and skills that will allow them to pursue careers as productive and influential Canadian scientists. This approach is based on the assumption that critically examining subject matter and using empirical methods to answer questions about mental and physical health will be the most fruitful in making strides towards alleviating human suffering

• An overarching instructional aim is to help trainees at all levels become versatile and complete complete clinical scientists and health practitioners