Alvaro Sanchez Lopez

Assistant Professor

Email

alvarol@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor: Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Postdoctoral Associate: Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Education

PhD from Universidad de Sevilla: 09/2017 - Sevilla, Spain

MSc from Universidad Pablo de Olavide: 07/2009 - Sevilla, Spain

BSc from Universidad de Sevilla: 01/2007 - Sevilla, Spain

Certifications

Assistant Professor: Baylor College of Medicine

Websites

ORCID

Selected Publications

Sánchez-López Á, Escudero M. " An accurate and portable eye movement detector for studying sleep in small animals " J Sleep Res.. 2015 Aug ; 24 (4) : 466-73.
Pubmed PMID: 25590417.
Alvaro Sánchez-López Manuel Silva-Pérez Miguel Escudero. " Temporal dynamics of the transition period between nonrapid eye movement and rapid eye movement sleep in the rat " SLEEP. 2018 Sep 1; 41 (9)
Pubmed PMID: 30215813.
Sánchez-López A, Escudero M.. " Tonic and phasic components of eye movements during REM sleep in the rat " Eur J Neurosci.. 2011 Jun ; 33 (11) : 2129-38.
Pubmed PMID: 21645106.
Carlos A.Sánchez-León; Álvaro Sánchez-López; Claudia Ammann; Isabel Cordones; Alejandro Carretero-Guillén; JavierMárquez-Ruiz. " Exploring new transcranial electrical stimulation strategies to modulate brain function in animal models " Curr Opin Biomed Eng. 2018 Sep ;
Manuel Silva-Pérez, Alvaro Sánchez‐López, Natalia Pompa‐del‐Toro & Miguel Escudero. " Identification of the sleep–wake states in rats using the high‐frequency activity of the electroencephalogram " J Sleep Res.. 2021 Aug ;
Pubmed PMID: 33200511.
Carlos A. Sánchez-León; Álvaro Sánchez-López; María A. Gómez-Climent; Isabel Cordones; Roi Cohen Kadosh; Javier Márquez-Ruiz. " Impact of chronic transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) on GABAergic and glutamatergic activity markers in the prefrontal cortex of juvenile mice " Prog Brain Res.. 2021 ; 264 : 323-341.
Pubmed PMID: 34167661.
M Beau, D J Herzfeld, F Naveros, M E Hemelt, F D'Agostino, M Oostland, A Sánchez-López, Y Y Chung, M Maibach, S Kyranakis, H N Stabb, M G M Lopera, A Lajko, S Ohmae, N J Hall, B A Clark, D Cohen, S G Lisberger, D Kostadinov, C Hull, M Häusser, J F Medina. " A deep learning strategy to identify cell types across species from high-density extracellular recordings " Cell. 2025 Apr 17; 188 (8) : 2218-2234.e22..
Pubmed PMID: 40023155.
Carlos A Sánchez-León; Guillermo Sánchez-Garrido Campos; Marta Fernández; Álvaro Sánchez-López; Javier F Medina; Javier Márquez-Ruiz. " Somatodendritic orientation determines tDCS-induced neuromodulation of Purkinje cell activity in awake mice " eLife. 2025 Apr 14;
Pubmed PMID: 40228055.