ICBA 2025
10th International Conference on
Behavioral Addictions
 
ICBA 2025
10th International Conference on
Behavioral Addictions
 
ICBA 2025
10th International Conference on
Behavioral Addictions
 
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7-8-9 July 2025 Nantes, France
7-8-9 July 2025 Nantes, France
7-8-9 July 2025
Nantes, France

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.

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Registration
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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 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:

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:

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
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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

Please note that you should preferably be the presenting author of only one, but no more than two papers.

Information for oral presentations

Information for symposia

Information for mini talks

Information for poster presentation

Keynote speakers
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Program
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Location and venue
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Scientific committee
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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)
Previous ICBA Conferences
Previous ICBA Conferences
Previous ICBA Conferences
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International Conference on Behavioral Addictions

Budapest (Hungary) - 11-12 March, 2013

Budapest (Hungary) - 16-18 March, 2015

Geneva (Switzerland) - 14-16 March, 2016

Haifa (Israel) - 20-22 February, 2017

Cologne (Germany) - 23-25 April, 2018

Yokohama (Japan) - 17-19 June, 2019

Nottingham (United Kingdom) - 20-22 June, 2022

Incheon (South Korea) – 23-25 August, 2023

Gibraltar – 8-10 July, 2024


Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Journal of Behavioral Addictions
The journal
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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
International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions
International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions
ISSBA
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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.


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Abstract submission and registration inquiries

Andrea Eisinger
Email: icba@ppk.elte.hu

Scientific Information

Zsolt Demetrovics
Email: zsolt.demetrovics@gmail.com

Scientific Information

Zsolt Demetrovics
Email: zsolt.demetrovics@gmail.com
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