Over the years it became quite dilapidated and was torn down in 1778. The present building is from the 1840's. Department of Psychology Uppsala's first experimental laboratory for psychological studies was founded in 1902. The laboratory was first part of the Department of Physiology, and the Department of Psychology was not founded until 1948. Today, the Department of Psychology is located on Tradgardsgatan 20 in a building from the 1850's.
Developmental psychology is one of the main research areas.