Continuing antipsychotic medication during pregnancy associated with reduced risk of schizophrenia relapse

Psychotropic medication use during pregnancy is a challenging issue.

Several Mental Elf blogs have covered this topic already. For example, Joanne Wallace blogged about a large cohort study that found that antipsychotic medication use was not associated with an increased risk of major congenital malformation. More recently, Flo Martin blogged about the findings from an umbrella review that revealed the dearth of high-quality evidence in this field. There are two things worth highlighting from these blogs. First, as Martin states in her blog, the evidence base for this topic relies almost exclusively on the findings from observational studies, because pregnant women are almost always excluded from randomised…