• Panel on Government and Nonprofit Partnerships in Preventing and Treating Addiction        Moderator: Inbal Dor Karbel, CEO, Israel Center of Addiction (ICA)

• Prevalence of Substance and Behavioral Addictions and Common Mental Health Disorders in Israel, overall and by sociodemographic groups, 2022-2025

Dr. Dvora Shmulewitz, Israel Center for Addiction (ICA) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• How Parenting Interventions Prevent Substance Use and Related Risky Behaviors in Youth
  (and Help Parents, Too)

        Prof. Abigail Gewirtz, Arizona State University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• How are Tobacco Companies Circumventing Tobacco Control Policy in Israel?

        Prof. Yael Bar-Zeev, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• The Role of Research in Shaping a National Addiction Treatment Program

Prof. Shaul Lev-Ran, Israel Center for Addiction (ICA), LevHasharon Medical Center, and Tel Aviv University

• Novel Results and Directions in the Neuroscience of Human Drug addiction with a Focus on the Prefrontal Cortex: Naturalistic Measures and Treatment Effects

        Prof. Rita Z. Goldstein, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• Targeting the Medial Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortices with Deep TMS in Alcohol Use Disorder: Clinical, fMRI, DTI, and EEG Outcomes

        Dr. Abraham Zangen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

• Computational approaches for understanding Individual and Gender Differences in Drug Addiction

        Prof. Anna Zilverstand, University of Minnesota

• Leveraging Virtual Reality for Experiments in Decision Making: Concepts and Examples

        Prof. Tom Schonberg, Tel Aviv University

• Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of the Long-Term Health Consequences of Financial Hardship in Childhood

        Prof. Greg Miller, Northwestern University

• Psychosocial Resilience in Adolescents Who Experience Life

        Prof. Edith Chen, Northwestern University

• When the World Breaks, We Hold Each Other: Lessons in Resilience from October 7

        Prof. Tsachi Ein-Dor, Reichman University

• Opioid Use Disorder: Road to Ruin or Road to Recovery?

        Prof. Jonathan Gewirtz, Arizona State University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Synergistically Enhancing Brain Recovery in Human Addiction

        Prof. Rita Z. Goldstein, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• Long-Term Alcohol Consumption Enhances Accumbal Myelination and Impairs Neural Connectivity

        Prof. Segev Barak, Tel Aviv University

• Prenatal THC Exposure Compromises the Molecular Logic of Endocannabinoid Signalling in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons

        Prof. Miriam Melis, University of Cagliari

• Cellular Mechanism Explaining the Anti-Craving Effect of GLP-1 Agonists

        Prof. Paul Kenny, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• Recruitment of Inhibitory Neuronal Pathways Regulating Dopaminergic Activity for the Control of Cocaine Reward

        Prof. Rami Yaka, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• A Ventral Pallidal Glutamatergic Aversive Network Encodes Abstinence from, and Re-Exposure to, Cocaine

        Prof. Yonatan Kupchik, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Studying the Behavioral and Neuronal Consequences of Stimulus-Drug Association

        Prof. Yoram Ben-Shaul, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Molecular and Cellular Signatures of Addictive Substances across the Lifespan

        Prof. Mary Kay Lobo, University of Maryland

• Spatial Analysis of Brain Molecular Changes Following Addictive Drug Exposure and Intranasal Iron Chelator Treatment

        Dr. Katy Margulis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Retino-Thalamic Pathways Shape Prefrontal/Accumbal Luminance Coding and Drug Preference

        Dr. Shai Sabbah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Treatment for Drug Addiction via Gut Microbiome Modulation – Hope or Hype

        Prof. Gal Yadid, Bar-Ilan University