Stéphane Bouchard received is Ph.D. at the Université Laval in 1995. During the same year, he finished his first year of post-Doctoral studies and was hired by the Université du Québec en Outaouais. His work revolve around the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of anxiety disorders and the mechanisms underlying its effectiveness. For the past few years, he is specializing in the use of virtual reality and telepsychotherapy delivered through videoconferencing. He continues to occupy a vital leadership position within the Cyberpsychology Lab, thanks to ongoing close collaboration with other research team members (publications, etc.) and his international collaborations.

Through his relatively short career, Dr Bouchard as received many prizes and honors, notably the Award of the Canadian Research Chairs Program in Clinical Cyberpsychology in 2003 and the award from the Canadian Psychological Association, in 1995, in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the knowledge of psychology as a new researcher. He has already produced numerous publications to his credit and received many kinds of research grants. His current research projects focus in the treatment of specific phobias (e.g. flying phobia) and other more complex anxiety disorders (social anxiety, panic disorder, etc.), in the predictors underlying the effectiveness of telepsychotherapy (e.g. therapeutic alliance and motivation) and of virtual reality (e.g. sense of presence, role of emotions).

Judith Lapierre began her professorial career at UQO in 2000 after completing post-doctoral studies in spatial psychology at Strasbourg. She has distinguished herself through the various financial supports she has received during her studies from both well-known funding organisms (CHRSF, FRSQ, SSHRC, etc.) and from international funding agencies (programme Chateaubriand du Gouvernement Francais). In addition, her emerging space research program is founded on a long-term concrete experiment in the space field supported by the Canadian Space Agency. Her research interests revolve around psychological support administered across long distance and on the promotion of physical activity for those training under confined conditions using virtual reality. Her contribution to the lab falls under the development of practical applications in virtual reality and telehealth through the expertise in psychosocial space health which she brings to the team.

Dr Lapierre is an associated member of the Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales (CRISES). Her work concerns Native health, the collective mobilization and the social capital. Also an executive committee member at the Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire en soins et services de santé (GIRESSS), her interests include the collaboration establishment-health in promotion of health services.

Fro the past three years, Genevieve Forest worked as a neuropsychologist clinician in the Pierre-Janet Psychiatric Hospital, where she developed an expertise in psychiatric cognitive assessment. She also holds a strong training in electrophysiology and chronobiology, sciences which study sleep and biological rhythms. The principal objective of her research program is to define the role of sleep in the cognitive performance and its link with the secretion of hormones and mental health.

Dr Forest's work uses different methodology in order to study these problems, which can be described in three large research orientations. The first orientaiton consists of a series of studies about the effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance, the secretion of hormones and the cortical activity (electroencephalographic activity or EEG). The second axis revolve on the study of the role of sleep in the consolidation and the effectiveness in learning. Finally, the last orientation considers the impact of the sleep disturbances on cognitive functioning, life quality and psychiatric symptoms of people suffering from severe mental health disorders.

The implication of Dr. Forest within the Cyberpsychology Lab is characterized by the use of virtual reality to create cognitive tasks being related to real life. More precisely, this technology will be used in research projects aiming to specify the role of the sleep in learning process and the effects of sleep deprivation on performance. This young researcher presents a research file under development and aims the creation a research center for sleep at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. Her single expertise within the UQO consolidate the multidisciplinary relations within the researchers of this university.

Helene Forget began her professorial career at UQO in 2001. She has an education background in biomedical sciences (neuroendocrinology) and in experimental neuropsychology acquired following a four years post-doctorate at Université du Québec à Montréal. Moreover, she is actually completing a training in clinical neuropsychology where she has been developing an expertise in the cognitive evaluation with the normal and pathological old populations. The main goal of its research work is to better understand the interaction between the hormones and cognitive functioning. Her research look into, on the one hand, on the impact of hormonal disorder on the cognitive functions in some endocrine pathologies such as the Cushing's syndrome, the Graves' disease and the premenstrual syndrome as well as in normal and pathological ageing. On the other hand, her work tries to better define the role of the hormones - such as cortisol and sex hormones - in the cognitive deficits met in the disorders of mental health disorders such as the sleep disorders and the anxiety disorders.

The implications of Dr. Forget within the Cyberpsychology Lab are multiple. For example, she takes part in the development of cognitive tasks being related to real life by using the virtual reality tools. Moreover, technologies of virtual reality will be used in order to create environments suitable to induce modifications in the slackening of hormones in order to evaluate the impact of the hormonal changes on the cognitive performance.

Pierre Nolin obtained his doctorate in neuropsychology at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). He is a full professor and researcher in neuropsychology at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR) since 1989. He is one of the people in charge of the « clinical neuropsychology » orientation given at the higher cycles at the UQTR. He is the director of the Laboratoire de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Réalité Virtuelle (LARI-RV) of the UQTR. He is also a member of the Groupe de Recherche en Développement de l'Enfant et de la Famille (GREDEF) and of the Groupe de Recherche et d'Intervention en Négligence (GRIN). He practised neuropsychology from 1983 until 1989 in various rehabilitation centers and hospitals across Quebec, including the Rehabilitation Center Lucie-Bruneau, the Jewish Hospital of Rehabilitation and the Rehabilitation Center Le Bouclier. His research interests include the use of virtual reality for assessment and intervention in neuropsychology, the neuropsychological effects of maltreatment, memory, executive functions and learning amongst severe TBI as well as differential diagnosis of mild traumas (children and adults). He won the price for teaching for higher cycles at the UQTR in 2003 and the professional price from the Ordre des Psychologues of Quebec in 2005. His current work concerns mainly the development of a virtual environment aiming to assess and rehabilitate executive functions (The Virtual Multitasking Test) and the study of attention, prospective memory and executive functions with a neuropsychological clientele, including children and adults who have sustained a TBI, with virtual reality and neuropsychological assessment.