Chantal Murthy

I am looking to learn more about and manage my thought disorder symptoms when and as they come up. Below is some of my work that has resulted from this attempt. Please contact me at chantalm@uw.edu for any comments.

Future directions in schizophrenia treatment worth exploring

Understanding the PUFA Hypothesis of Schizophrenia – A synthesis of Professor Ari Rappoport’s (vetted by Nobel Laureate Professor Roger Kornberg on DNA transcription) extremely comprehensive, root-cause and mechanistic theory on membrane dysfunction in schizophrenia as the root cause of symptom maintenance

Phenomenology of thought disorder and treatment directions

Thought disorder – Lived Experience, Psychosocial Approaches, and the Limits of Our Understanding – Presentation I gave to DISCOURSE 2025 on my attempts to categorize dimensions of thought disorder based on studying my writings, with suggestions for future directions on how speech samples are obtained from this population
How thought disorder treated is within CBT-p – Outline on treatment gaps for thought disorder within the CBT-p framework with suggestions on psychosocial treatments and cognitive training
Language in psychosis – Presentation on how language is computationally analyzed in thought disorder with future questions and research directions
What is Thought Insertion – Presentation on phenomenology of thought insertion based and how the boundary between obsessive intrusions vs ‘psychotic’ intrusions is fuzzier than we think. Based off of study from Intruders in the Mind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Thought Insertion by Pablo Lopez-Silva and Tom McClelland

My personal experiences with OCD and psychotic symptoms (mainly thought disorder)

My journey in schizophrenia symptoms and research – Presentation I gave to CEYMH at Douglas Research Centre, on my journey on how I’ve appraised my symptoms and treatments I’ve tried
Oral hygiene OCD post from 2014 – A detailed account of how being obsessive about my breath smell took up lots of mental space and feels from the inside

Other work I’ve done in schizophrenia research

World Mental Health Day 2024 Flyer – A flyer for World Mental Health Day 2024 co-created with colleagues from the SPIRIT Center, providing information and resources for treatment for psychosis

Chantal Murthy

Future directions in schizophrenia treatment worth exploring

Phenomenology of thought disorder and treatment directions

My personal experiences with OCD and psychotic symptoms (mainly thought disorder)

Other work I’ve done in schizophrenia research

I have also co-developed educational websites to make topics like graph theory, immunology and genetics more accessible for self-learning