Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the 10th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA) is due to take place on 7-8-9 July 2025 in Nantes, France.
This conference is the annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions (ISSBA) that aims to assemble specialists working in the field of behavioral addictions to provide a venue for face-to-face networking, as well as a forum for presenting and discussing the most recent research results of the field.
We look forward to welcoming researchers, clinicians, social workers, health service professionals, people with lived experience and everyone else who is interested in behavioral addictions whatever their perspective is.
Join us in Nantes between July 7-8-9, 2025.
Yours sincerely,
Zsolt Demetrovics
President of ISSBA
Marie Grall-Bronnec
Local Organizer
Gaëlle Challet
Local Organizer
This conference is a unique opportunity to:
- Share scientific knowledge on behavioral (non-substance related) addictions.
- Enhance your knowledge and awareness on the common and less common behavioral
addictions from a multi-disciplinary point of view, and explore novel forms of intervention and prevention models.
- Gain a better understanding of different approaches of non-substance related addictions, research reports focusing on
the addictive patterns of various behaviors, especially disorders of the impulsive-compulsive spectrum, such as:
gambling / internet / computer and video games / online gaming / pyromania / kleptomania / intermittent explosive disorder
/trichotillomania / onychophagia / skin picking / compulsive buying / sexual behavior / compulsive hoarding / exercise dependence
/ obsessive-compulsive disorder / eating disorders / body dysmorphic disorder / muscle dysmorphic disorder / hypochondriasis
/ other excessive behaviors or non-substance addiction disorders / behavioral addictions in children/adolescents
- Coverage ranges from genetic and neurobiological research through psychological and clinical psychiatric approaches to
epidemiological, sociological and anthropological aspects.
- Meet experts and facilitate the development of new international networks and collaborations.
For more information please select from the side menu
1. Registration is administrated via an external tool: ConfTool. There, you may create a user account to enter or view reviews and access the results of the reviewing process. To do so, please click on the "Click here" button.
2. To arrange your accommodation, please go to accommodation (Please visit our website later.).
3. Abstract submission happens also via the ConfTool. For further information please go to the "Abstract submission" side menu by clicking on this link.
Registration fee (deadlines are given in GMT+0 23:59):
- Early bird registration deadline extended: 10 December 2024 (payment must be completed not later than 10 January 2025)
- Normal registration: 11 December 2024 - 17 February 2025 (payment must be completed not later than 17 March 2025)
- Late registration: From 18 March 2025, or onsite
|
Early bird |
Normal |
Late / onsite |
ISSBA member |
490 EUR |
590 EUR |
690 EUR |
Non-member |
600 EUR |
700 EUR |
800 EUR |
Student ISSBA member |
350 EUR |
450 EUR |
550 EUR |
Student non-member |
400 EUR |
500 EUR |
600 EUR |
Not included in the registration fee:
- Gala dinner: 75 EUR
- For information on social programmes, please visit our website later.
The use of the reduced registration fee is subject to the payment of the membership fee (for 2025) of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions (ISSBA). (Those who are already members are expected to pay the 2024 membership fee as well.)
The Journal of Behavioral Addictions offers a 15% discount for corresponding authors who are members of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions (ISSBA).
The registration fee includes:
- Admission to all scientific sessions
- Admission to Welcome reception on 7 July
- Refreshments during breaks
- Lunch on 8 and 9 July
Please note that we can only refund 40% of the registration fee if cancelled officially before the 30 April 2025. No refund is possible if cancellation is made at a later date.
Abstract submission deadline is extended: 6 December 2024.
Abstract submission happens via an external tool: ConfTool. There, you may create a user account to enter, submit your abstract(s) and access the results of the reviewing process. To do so, please click on the "Click here" button.
Topics of discussion
- ADHD (Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) / Body dysmorphic disorder / Buying-shopping addiction (Compulsive buying) / Compulsive sexual behavior disorder (hypersexuality) / Eating disorders / Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder / Exercise dependence / Food Addiction / Gambling Disorder / Gaming disorder (computer and video games, online gaming) / Hoarding Disorder / Hypochondriasis / Intermittent Explosive Disorder / Internet addiction / Kleptomania / Mobile Phone Addiction / Muscle dysmorphic disorder / Obsessive-compulsive disorder / Pornography Addiction / Pyromania / Social Media Addiction / Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder) / Work Addiction
Please note that you should preferably be the presenting author of only one, but no more than two papers.
Information for oral presentations
- If using a PowerPoint (or any other computer) presentation, please note you need to bring it on a USB pendrive/flashdrive. You will need to upload it on the computer in the room assigned for your session. Assistance is provided upon request.
- If combining video films with PowerPoint, please make sure to check it in the session hall where your lecture is taking place during a coffee or lunch break prior to your session, at least 30 minutes before the start of the session.
- Please note that the conference’s computers in the session halls are being supplied with Microsoft Windows.
- Presentations should be 15 minutes in duration with an additional 1-2 minutes following for questions.
Information for symposia
- Symposia (90 minutes) are organized by a chair person and consist of 4-5 individual oral presentations.
- All abstracts need to be uploaded by the chair person.
Information for mini talks
- Please prepare your presentation to a maximum of 2-3 minutes in length (maximum of 5 slides).
- An additional 1-2 minutes will be available for questions/comments.
- Please prepare your presentations in PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppt).
Information for poster presentation
- Please note that you must bring the printed poster to the conference.
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Scientific committee
Sophia Achab
University of Geneva
(Switzerland)
Joël Billieux
University of Lausanne
(Switzerland)
Beáta Bőthe
University of Montreal
(Canada)
Henrietta Bowden-Jones
Imperial College
(United Kingdom)
Matthias Brand
University of Duisburg-Essen
(Germany)
Susumu Higuchi
National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center
(Japan)
Susana Jimenez-Murcia
Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL
(Spain)
Daniel King
Flinders University
(Australia)
Orsolya Király
Eötvös Loránd University
(Hungary)
Hae Kook Lee
The Catholic University of Korea Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital
(Republic of Korea)
Astrid Müller
Hannover Medical School
(Germany)
Marc N. Potenza
Yale University
(USA)
Anise Wu
University of Macau
(China)
The Journal of Behavioral Addictions (impact factor: 6,6)
provides a unique opportunity to publish in the field of any behavioral addictions.
We expect to prepare a special issue in which all abstracts accepted for symposia, oral presentation, mini-talk or poster will be disseminated.
More information on JBA
The aims of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions (ISSBA) are to study behavioral addictions and to help developing the interface of behavioral addiction science on the international stage.
More information on ISSBA