Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the 7th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA) is due to take place from 22-24 June, 2020, in Nottingham, United Kingdom. In 2011 we launched the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, and two years later we organized the 1st International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA) in Budapest, Hungary, in order to provide a venue for face-to-face encounters, as well as a forum for scientific information exchange. After the conferences in Budapest (2013, 2015), Geneva (2016), Haifa (2017), Cologne (2018), and Yokohama (2019), in 2020 we are already organizing the seventh meeting. The conference will appeal to research scientists, clinicians, social workers, health service managers and others. We look forward to welcoming everyone who is interested in behavioral addictions and allied disorders, whatever their perspective. Join us in Nottingham from June 22-24, 2020.
Yours sincerely,
Zsolt Demetrovics
Co-Chair
Daria J. Kuss
Co-Chair, Local Organiser
Mark D. Griffiths
Co-Chair
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.
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: 31 January 2020 (payment must be completed not later than 10 February 2020)
- Normal registration: 01 February 2020 - 31 March, 2020 (payment must be completed not later than 31 March 2020)
- Late registration: From 01 April, 2020, or onsite
| |
Early bird |
Normal |
Late / onsite |
| ISSBA Member |
€280 |
€380 |
€480 |
| Non-member |
€390 |
€490 |
€590 |
| Student ISSBA member |
€210 |
€290 |
€370 |
| Student non-member |
€260 |
€340 |
€420 |
The use of the reduced registration fee is subject to the payment of the membership fee (for 2020) of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions (ISSBA). (Those who are already members are expected to pay the 2019 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 22 June
- Refreshments during breaks
- Lunch on 22, 23 and 24 June
Please note that we can only refund 40% of the registration fee if cancelled officially before the 30 April 2020. No refund is possible if cancellation is made at a later date.
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
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
- There will be no traditional poster section, but instead, "mini talk" presentations will be organized.
- 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).
Abstract submission deadline: 20 January 2020
Abstract submission happens also via the ConfTool.
Henrietta Bowden-Jones
National Problem Gambling Clinic
(United Kingdom)
Please visit our website later for more keynote speakers.
Hotel booking is also available with this accomodation booking site:
Click here
Scientific committee
Max W. Abbott
Aucklan University of Technology
(New Zealand)
Elias N. Aboujaoude
Stanford University
(USA)
Judit Balázs
Eötvös Loránd University
(Hungary)
Alex Baldacchino
University of Dundee
(United Kingdom)
Joël Billieux
University of Luxembourg
(Luxembourg)
Alex Blaszczynski
University of Sidney
(Australia)
Kenneth Blum
University of Florida
(USA)
Henrietta Bowden-Jones
Imperial College
(United Kingdom)
Matthias Brand
University of Duisburg-Essen
(Germany)
Wim van den Brink
University of Amsterdam
(The Netherlands)
Gerhard Bühringer
Technische Universität Dresden
(Germany)
Sam-Wook Choi
Eulji University
(Republic of Korea)
Damiaan Denys
University of Amsterdam
(The Netherlands)
Jeffrey L. Derevensky
McGill University
(Canada)
Naomi Fineberg
University of Hertfordshire
(United Kingdom)
Anneke Goudriaan
University of Amsterdam
(The Netherlands)
Marie Grall-Bronnec
University Hospital of Nantes
(France)
Jon E. Grant
University of Minnesota
(USA)
Mark Griffiths
Nottingham Trent University
(United Kingdom)
Heather Hausenblas
University of Florida
(USA)
Tobias Hayer
University of Bremen
(Germany)
Susumu Higuchi
National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center
(Japan)
David Hodgins
University of Calgary
(Canada)
Eric Hollander
Monteflore Medical Center
(USA)
Yasser Khazaal
Geneva University Hospital
(Switzerland)
Daniel King
University of Adelaide
(Australia)
Orsolya Király
Eötvös Loránd University
(Hungary)
Ludwig Kraus
IFT Institute for Therapy Research
(Germany)
Emmanuel Kuntsche
Addiction Info Switzerland
(Switzerland)
Hae Kook Lee
The Catholic University of Korea
(Republic of Korea)
Michel Lejoyeux
Paris University
(France)
Olatz Lopez-Fernandez
Monash University
(Australia)
Anikó Maráz
Eötvös Loránd University
(Hungary)
Giovanni Martinotti
'Gabriele d'Annunzio' University of Chieti-Pescara
(Italy)
F. Gerard Moeller
University of Texas
(USA)
Astrid Müller
Hannover Medical School
(Germany)
Daniel Thor Olason
University of Iceland
(Iceland)
Bettina Pikó
University of Szeged
(Hungary)
Halley Pontes
University of Tasmania
(Australia)
Marc N. Potenza
Yale University
(USA)
Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar
Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS)
(Iran)
József Rácz
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(Hungary)
Rory C. Reid
University of California Los Angeles
(USA)
Hans-Jurgen Rumpf
University of Lübeck
(Germany)
Dan J. Stein
University of Cape Town
(South Africa)
Marcantonio M. Spada
London South Bank University
(United Kingdom)
Daniel T. Spritzer
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
(Brazil)
Sherry H. Stewart
Dalhousie University
(Canada)
Attila Szabó
Eötvös Loránd University
(Hungary)
Alfred Uhl
Austrian Federal Health Institute
(Austria)
Róbert Urbán
Eötvös Loránd University
(Hungary)
Johan Vanderlinden
University Psychiatric Center
K.U. Leuven Campus,Kortenberg
(Belgium)
Alexander E. Voiskounsky
Moscow State University
(Russia)
Aviv M. Weinstein
Ariel University
(Israel)
The Journal of Behavioral Addictions (impact factor: 4.873)
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 oral presentation 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
