World Bipolar Day (WBD) is a global initiative founded by various professional societies and foundations to bring world awareness to bipolar disorders and to eliminate social stigma. Through international collaboration, the goal of World Bipolar Day is to bring the world population information about bipolar disorders that will educate and improve sensitivity towards the illness. WBD is celebrated each year on March 30th, the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh, who was posthumously diagnosed as probably having bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that causes abnormal strong shifts in mood, activity levels and energy, and severe suffering for patients and caregivers. This disorder constitutes a major health economic challenge for societies: according to the most recent WHO global burden of disease study, bipolar disorders rank within the top 20 causes of disability among all medical conditions worldwide, and rank 6thamong the mental disorders.
在全球所有医疗状况中，双极疾病排名在造成残疾的前20个原因范围内。
躁郁症患者的预期寿命降低了约10年，这可能是由于医疗合并症，高自杀率和不良生活方式所致。显然，在研究议程中，双相情感障碍应获得更高的优先级，以了解潜在的致病机制，减少诊断延迟并改善治疗策略。尽管在过去十年中，许多国家的研究活动增加了，但与其他严重的精神和医疗疾病相比，双相情感障碍研究的资金仍然很低。
Sharing knowledge ofbipolar disorders
For the first time,国际双极疾病杂志（IJBD）joins World Bipolar Day in 2017, four years after the journal’s launch as the first open access online journal dedicated to the publication and communication of all aspects of the illness. The need for a new journal in bipolar disorder was reflected in its founding year 2013 by an increasing number of research activities around the globe. Since then, the number of publications has risen significantly, and all are completely free and open on the journal’s website.
One major advantage of open access publishing is that it allows every person to read the publications without charge on the internet, not only health care professionals but also people suffering the disorder and lay people interested in the subject. This is a major advancement because it allows patients and caregivers to be better informed and educated about the illness.
在过去的十年中，科学家和治疗师的主要要求是对躁郁症的教育增加。这种向全球研究人员免费提供的方式可以最大程度地传播。传统上，科学文章仅适用于那些在大学或其他研究机构中获得图书馆的人。
IJBD发表了双极疾病及其密切相关疾病领域的临床，心理，社会和生物学研究范围的贡献。
International Journal of Bipolar Disorderscontributes to the facilitation of publication and global access of new research results and clinically useful literature reviews, and fosters the exchange of ideas among the multidisciplinary health professionals and researchers involved with bipolar disorders. With the help of a distinguished international editorial board of 97 leading researchers from every continent,IJBD旨在帮助弥合研究发现与临床实践之间的差距，并促进新研究数据的传播，最终目的是改善双相情感障碍患者的护理。
IJBD发表了双极疾病及其密切相关疾病领域（例如抑郁症，精神分裂症）的整个临床，心理，社会和生物学研究范围的贡献。从治疗的角度来看，该期刊的重点将是新的，甚至是新的，甚至是实验性的心理和药理疗法。
Methods and research findings from applied neurosciences that demonstrate translational value will increase in the coming years. Another focus will be howdigital devices和big datawill impact the delivery of care for people with bipolar disorder which is changing with a new emphasis on integrated care, preventative measures, population health, and the biological basis of disease. Fundamental to this transformation are big data and advances in the ability to analyze these data. The impact of big data on the routine treatment of bipolar disorder today and in the near future are welcomed at IJBD, with examples that relate to health policy, the discovery of new associations, and the study of rare events.
IJBD鼓励临床医生和研究人员提交有关双相情感障碍的原始研究论文，简短的研究通讯，评论，准则，非凡的临床病例报告和评论（给编辑的信）。编辑团队和同行评审系统确保对所有提交的手稿进行公平，迅速的审查，并一旦接受，就可以迅速在线发布。请参与International Journal of Bipolar Disorders作为读者和作者。日报的家在https://www.journalbipolardisorders.com/.
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