Associate Professor
Director of Behavioral Neuroscience Lab
Developmental Psychology
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Heyne Building, Room 231D
713-743-8616
jlleasure@uh.edu

Research Interests

• Exercise-driven neuroplasticity
• Binge alcohol damage
• Gliovascular complex
• Hippocampal neurogenesis

Teaching

• PSYC 3341: Physiological Psychology
• PSYC 4354: Brain and Behavior
• PSYC 6343: Behavioral Psychopharmacology
• PSYC 6397: Functional Neuroanatomy
• PSYC 7342: Biological Bases of Behavior

Laboratory

Behavioral Neuroscience Lab

Selected Publications

Hawley DF & Leasure JL (2012) Differential response of hippocampal subregions to stress and learning. PLoS One, 7:e53126

Leasure JL & Nixon K (2010) Exercise neuroprotection in a rat model of binge alcohol consumption. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 34:404-414.

Leasure J.L. & Jones M. (2008). Forced and voluntary exercise differentially affect brain and behavior. Neuroscience, 156:456-465.

Leasure J.L., Giddabasappa A., Chaney S., Johnson J.E., Pothakos K., Lau Y-S. & Fox D.A. (2008). Low-level human equivalent gestational lead exposure produces sex-specific motor and coordination abnormalities and late-onset obesity in year-old mice. Environmental Health Perspectives, 116:355-361.