Zachary Stowe, MD from Emory University, is an authority on the treatment of mental illness in women. He recently gave an update on these issues in our department’s Grand Rounds here at Washington University.

In general, there is a lot of concern about how (or whether) to treat serious mental illnesses like bipolar disorder during and after pregnancy due to concerns about the effects on developing fetuses and nursing babies. While the FDA attempts to describe the potential risk of medications...