Volume 7 Supplement 1 2 Abstracts of the 0 5th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions 1 8 Journal of NEW! InInddeexed i inn FOUNDED IN 2011 WebME ofD SLcIiNeEn, c e & Web of Science & Behavioral PPuubbMMeed Ceennttraral l Editor-in-Chief: Addictions Zsolt Demetrovics -hosted website: www.akademiai.com. include: Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/30/21 11:38 AM UTC Journal of Behavioral Addictions Editor-in-Chief ZSOLT DEMETROVICS (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) Associate Editors Judit Balázs (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary); Joël Billieux (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Matthias Brand (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Anneke Goudriaan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Daniel King (University of Adelaide, Australia); Ludwig Kraus (Institute for Therapy Research, Germany); Astrid Müller (Hannover Medical School, Germany); Halley M. Pontes (Nottingham Trent University, UK); Marc N. Potenza (Yale University, USA); Róbert Urbán (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary); Aviv M. Weinstein (Hadassah University, Israel) Editorial Board Elias N. Aboujaoude (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA); Hojjat Adeli (Ohio State University, USA); Alex Baldacchino (University of Dundee, United Kingdom); Alex Blaszczynski (University of Sidney, Australia); Kenneth Blum (University of Florida, USA); Henrietta Bowden-Jones (Imperial College, United Kingdom); 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); Marie Grall-Bronnec (University Hospital of Nantes, France); Jon E. Grant (University of Minnesota, USA); Mark Griffiths (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom); Tobias Hayer (University of Bremen, Germany); Susumu Higuchi (National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center, Japan); Eric Hollander (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA); Jaeseung Jeong (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea); Yasser Khazaal (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland); Emmanuel Kuntsche (Addiction Info Switzerland, Switzerland); Michel Lejoyeux (Paris University, France); Frederick Gerard Moeller (University of Texas, USA); Astrid Müller (Hannover Medical School, Germany); Daniel Thor Olason (University of Iceland, Iceland); Nancy Petry (University of Connecticut, USA); Bettina Pikó (University of Szeged, Hungary); Marc N. Potenza (Yale University, USA); József Rácz (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary); Rory C. Reid (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Dan J. Stein (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Sherry H. Stewart (Dalhousie University, Canada); Attila Szabó (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary); Ferenc Túry (Semmelweis University, Hungary); Alfred Uhl (Austrian Federal Health Institute, Austria); Johan Vanderlinden (University Psychiatric Center K.U. Leuven, Belgium); Alexander E. Voiskounsky (Moscow State University, Russia); Kimberly Young (Center for Internet Addiction, USA) Editorial Assistant Gergely Ribáry (Eötvös Lóránd University, Hungary) 5th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions Volume 7, Number 1, April 2018 AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ MEMBER OF WOLTERS KLUWER GROUP Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/30/21 11:38 AM UTC Contents 5th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions April 23–25, 2018 Cologne, Germany Keynote presentations . 1 Minitalks. 9 Oral presentations . 38 Author index . 168 Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/30/21 11:38 AM UTC KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS KS-1 Conceptualizing behavioral addictions without pathologizing common behaviors JOËL BILLIEUX Addictive and Compulsive Behaviour Lab., Institute for Health and Behaviour, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg E-Mail: [email protected] Background: Following the recent changes to the diagnostic category for addictive disorders in DSM-5, and the pending inclusion of gaming and gambling disorders in the ICD-11, there is an urgent need to clarify what constitutes behavioral addiction to avoid pathologizing normal behavior. Methods: A critical analysis of available literature was conducted, and a de- bate took place with peers through the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/q2vva/wiki/ home/). Results: An expanding body of research has classified engagement in a wide range of common behaviors and leisure activities as behavioral addictions, resulting in patholo- gizing of non-clinically relevant behaviors. Some of the reviewed studies are characterized by a confirmatory bias (e.g., a priori conceptualization of excessive appetitive behaviors as addictive disorders, recycling of substance abuse/dependence criteria, failure to consider alternative etiological models). Conclusions: An operational definition of behavioral addic- tion together with a number of exclusion criteria is proposed, in order to avoid pathologizing common behaviors and provide a common ground for further research. KS-2 Gambling disorder: Personal vulnerabilities and product features LUKE CLARK Centre for Gambling Research at UBC, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; E-Mail: [email protected] Recent years have seen an emerging consensus that gambling disorder should be considered a behavioral addiction in DSM-5 and ICD-11. The relative roles of personal vulnerability and gambling products features in shaping the development of disordered gambling remains poorly understood. In terms of vulnerability, gambling disorder is associated with elevated impulsivity and altered reward processing, but case-control studies by themselves are un- able to arbitrate whether these effects are precursors or consequences of the disorder. To shed further light on vulnerability mechanisms, we have examined individuals with gambling disorder as well as their unaffected biological siblings, using functional MRI with a gam- bling-based unpredictable reward task. In terms of gambling product features, our research 1 ICBA2018 / April 23–25, 2018 / Cologne, Germany Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/30/21 11:38 AM UTC Keynote presentations focuses on modern slot machines as a more harmful form of gambling. Modern slot machines contain an array of structural characteristics including near-misses, sensory feedback, and opportunities for illusory control, which amplify reward-related brain activity in controlled experiments. Together, these features may create a state of immersion that is also predictive of problem gambling symptoms. Identification of the critical structural features of EGMs, and their interaction with personal vulnerabilities, is a necessary foundation for ‘responsible gambling’ practices, and for estimating the risks posed by emerging gambling technologies. KS-3 Behavioral addictions: An overview of research directions and developments ZSOLT DEMETROVICS & MARA J. RICHMAN Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; E-Mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Background and aims: Research on behavioral addictions, including gaming disorder, gam- bling disorder, hypersexuality, exercise addiction, compulsive buying, and other excessive behaviors has increased significantly in the past years. The aim of this presentation is to overview this development and to examine which areas are developing satisfactorily and which are the ones that might require more research efforts in the future. Methods: System- atic literature review on the different behavioral addictions has been followed by quantitative and qualitative analyses of the available studies. Results and conclusions: Results show that there is an increasing amount of research available on behavioral addictions, however, there are significant differences according to the development of the different areas. Quality of the studies is diverse, and in most cases, cross-sectional design and convenient sampling domi- nates the field. Measurement issues, psychometric studies, and the examination of psycho- logical characteristics are important focuses, while much less attention is paid to biomarkers, neurobiological processes, and genetics. Lack of studies on clinical samples is also an impor- tant characteristic of the field. KS-4 Gender difference in Internet gaming disorder GUANGHENG DONG Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, P. R. China; E-Mail: [email protected] Studies have shown that male game players are more likely to develop Internet gaming dis- order (IGD) than females do, however, the gender-related neurocognitive differences that may contribute to the different results remain unknown. We explored this issue with a series ICBA2018 / April 23–25, 2018 / Cologne, Germany 2 Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/30/21 11:38 AM UTC Keynote presentations of studies, including the vulnerabilities that may contribute to the transformation to IGD, the brain responses to gaming cues in ordinary and deprivation situations, functional connectiv- ity during gaming and deprivation in different groups and so on. All these findings deepened our understanding about the mechanism underlying IGD. KS-5 Food addiction: An appealing but unsettled construct FERNANDO FERNÁNDEZ-ARANDA University Hospital of Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; E-Mail: [email protected] The food addiction (FA) construct has become a topic of increasing interest in the scientific