The Journal of Affective Disorders publishes papers concerned with affective disorders in the widest sense: depression, mania, anxiety and panic. It is interdisciplinary and aims to bring together different approaches for a diverse readership. High quality papers will be accepted dealing with any aspect of affective disorders, including biochemistry, pharmacology, endocrinology, genetics, statistics, epidemiology, psychodynamics, classification, clinical studies and studies of all types of treatment.

《情感障礙雜志》發表的論文涉及最廣泛意義上的情感障礙：抑郁、狂躁、焦慮和恐慌。它是跨學科的，旨在為不同的讀者帶來不同的方法。高質量的論文將被接受處理情感障礙的任何方面，包括生物化學、藥理學、內分泌學、遺傳學、統計學、流行病學、精神動力學、分類：臨床研究和所有類型的治療研究。