University of HoustonDepartment of Psychology
University of Houston
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J. Leigh Leasure

Assistant Professor

J. Leigh Leasure
J. Leigh Leasure
Doctorate: University of Texas at Austin
Undergraduate: University of Richmond


Research Interests
  • Hippocampal neurogenesis
  • Post-stroke exercise and rehabilitation
  • Neuroplastic events after stroke

Teaching

  • PSYC 3341: Physiological Psychology
  • PSYC 7342: Biological Bases of Behavior
  • PSYC 6343: Behavioral Psychopharmacology
  • PSYC 6397: Functional Neuroanatomy
 
E-mail:  j.leasure@mail.uh.edu
 
Selected Publications
 
Aimone, J.B., Leasure, J.L., Perreau, V.M., Thallmair, M. & The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Research Consortium (2004). Spatial and temporal gene expression profiling of the contused rat spinal cord. Experimental Neurology 189:204-221.

Leasure, J.L. & Schallert, T. Consequences of forced disuse of the impaired forelimb after unilateral cortical injury. Behavioural Brain Research 2004;150(1-2):83-91.

Schallert, T., Leasure, J.L. & Kolb, B. Experience-associated structural events, subependymal cellular proliferative activity, and functional recovery after injury to the central nervous system. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow Metabolism 2000;20:1513-28.

Moon, L.D., Leasure, J.L., Gage, F.H. & Bunge, M.B. (2006). Motor enrichment sustains hindlimb move-ment recovered after spinal cord injury and glial transplantation. Restorative Neurology & Neuroscience 24(3):147-161.