Sillitoe Lab

@SillitoeLab

We have moved on from X. Find us @cerebellumcenter.bsky.social

Houston, TX researchgate.net/lab/Roy-V-Sill… Joined August 2019

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Sillitoe Lab @SillitoeLab Mar 24

What happens when a neuroscientist sits down with a standup comedian?

Dr. Sillitoe joins Tosh Show with @danieltosh for a conversation that’s equal parts sharp, surprising, and genuinely funny. #cerebellum

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www.youtube.com My Niece and Her Neuroscientist - Dr. Roy Sillitoe | Tosh Show In one of the most personal episodes of the Tosh Show, Daniel welco...

Sillitoe Lab @SillitoeLab Apr 18

Huge congratulations to Sarah on successfully defending her dissertation today! Years of hard work, curiosity, and persistence have led to this moment, and we’re incredibly proud of our newly minted Dr. Donofrio! @donofrio_sarah

Sillitoe Lab @SillitoeLab Feb 18

Our group has spent the last 15 years developing a surgical therapeutic approach called Cerebellar Deep Brain Stimulation. Here, we showed that the approach may restore brain circuit function and movement by modulating the sub-cellular structure of organelles.

Sillitoe Lab @SillitoeLab Jan 27, 2025

New from the lab @donofrio_sarah: Aging leads to patterned Purkinje cell loss in the cerebellum, seen in both mice and humans. More insights into how aging shapes neuronal vulnerability here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

www.biorxiv.org Cerebellar Purkinje cell stripe patterns reveal a differential vulnerability and resistance to cell... Age-related neurodegenerative diseases involve reduced cell numbers and impaired behavioral capacity. Neurodegeneration and behavioral deficits also occur during aging, and notably in the absence of...

Sillitoe Lab @SillitoeLab Jan 14, 2025

Huge congrats to our @bcm_neurosci @sarahdonofrio.bsky.social for her beautiful science communication piece, highlighted in Nature Features and Opinion! Dive into the fascinating story of how a neuroscientist unraveled his own long COVID mystery. youcanknowthings.com/how-one-neuros….

www.youcanknowthings.com How a neuroscientist solved the mystery of his own long COVID When Jeff Yau started having strange symptoms after his COVID-19 infection – numbness, tingling, and shaking – he experienced what thousands of others with long COVID have found: answers were hard to...