James Pawelczyk

Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology

107 Noll Lab
University Park,
jap18@psu.edu
814-865-3453

Research Summary

Neural control of circulation, particularly skeletal muscle blood flow, as it is affected by exercise or spaceflight.

Huck Affiliations

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology

Most Recent Publications

Elevated risk of dyspnea in pediatric patients three months after pulmonary embolism

Abidan Abulimiti, Lydia S. Robson, James A. Pawelczyk, Bryce N. Balmain, Ayesha Zia, Tony G. Babb, 2025, British Journal of Tuberculosis and Diseases of the Chest

Impaired neurovascular coupling in metabolic syndrome: an fNIRS study

Jigar Gosalia, Jocelyn M. Delgado Spicuzza, Christine K. Bowlus, Andrew Gardner, Nancy A. Dennis, James A. Pawelczyk, David N. Proctor, 2025, Journal of Applied Physiology on p. 1651-1663

Time Course of Effects of Carbon Dioxide Exposure on Physical and Cognitive Performance in a Simulated Surface Extravehicular Activity Contingency Scenario

N Keller, R Scully, B Levine, T Babb, James Pawelczyk, A Baughman, M Basner, K Marshall-Goebel, A Garbino, 2025,

Carotid artery dissection linked to intermittent apnoeic swimming: A case–control study

Damian M. Bailey, Richard G. Davies, Brenig L. Gwilym, Benjamin S. Stacey, Danny Walmsley, Michael H. Lewis, Josip Butkovic, Ivan Mumlek, Brad Perry, Zvonomir Vrselja, Shigehiko Ogoh, James A. Pawelczyk, Mohamad Bashir, Richard D. White, Ian M. Williams, 2025, Experimental Physiology

Vascular limitations in blood pressure regulation with age in women: Insights from exercise and acute cardioselective β-blockade

Matthew J. Studinski, Christine Bowlus, James A. Pawelczyk, Jocelyn M. Delgado Spicuzza, Jigar Gosalia, Swapan Mookerjee, Matthew D. Muller, Jason Fragin, David N. Proctor, 2025, Experimental Physiology on p. 93-105

Pediatric patients diagnosed as overweight and obese have an elevated risk of dyspnea

Lydia S. Robson, Abidan Abulimiti, Jorge Z. Granados, Ayesha N. Zia, Bryce N. Balmain, James A. Pawelczyk, Tony G. Babb, 2024, Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Age Comparisons of Cardiac Work During Exercise in Women: Insight from Acute beta-1 Adrenergic Blockade

Christine Bowlus, Matthew Studinski, Jocelyn Delgado Spicuzza, Jigar Gosalia, James Pawelczyk, Matthew Muller, Swapan Mookerjee, D Proctor, 2024, Physiology on p. 2147

Discrepancies in Medication Usage and Lifestyle Modification Referrals in Metabolic Syndrome is Dependent on how the Syndrome is Coded: A TriNetX Study

Annabelle Brinkerhoff, Jigar Gosalia, Juan Qiu, James Pawelczyk, D Proctor, 2024, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science on p. 4--5

Effect of Carbon Dioxide Exposure on Physical and Cognitive Performance in A Simulated Spaceflight Contingency Scenario

A Garbino, B Siders, N Keller, R Scully, B Levine, T Babb, James Pawelczyk, M Basner, A Baughman, K Marshall-Goebel, others, 2024,

Linking metabolic syndrome, cerebral small vessel disease, and cognitive health: insights from a subclinical population study using TriNetX

Jigar Gosalia, Jocelyn M.Delgado Spicuzza, Christine K. Bowlus, James A. Pawelczyk, David N. Proctor, 2024, GeroScience

Most-Cited Papers

Aging women and their endothelium: Probing the relative role of estrogen on vasodilator function

Yasina Somani, James A. Pawelczyk, Mary Jane De Souza, Penny M. Kris-Etherton, David N. Proctor, 2019, American Journal of Physiology on p. H395-H404

Association of iron deficiency anemia with hearing loss in US adults

Kathleen M. Schieffer, Cynthia H. Chuang, James Connor, James A. Pawelczyk, Deepa L. Sekhar, 2017, JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery on p. 350-354

The relationship between iron deficiency anemia and sensorineural hearing loss in the pediatric and adolescent population

Kathleen M. Schieffer, James R. Connor, James A. Pawelczyk, Deepa L. Sekhar, 2017, American Journal of Audiology on p. 155-162

Noninvasive assessment of cardiac output: Accuracy and precision of the closed-circuit acetylene rebreathing technique for cardiac output measurement

E. Ashley Hardin, Douglas Stoller, Justin Lawley, Erin J. Howden, Michinari Hieda, James Pawelczyk, Sara Jarvis, Kim Prisk, Satyam Sarma, Benjamin D. Levine, 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association

Caloric restriction decreases orthostatic tolerance independently from 6° head-down bedrest

John P. Florian, Friedhelm J. Baisch, Martina Heer, James A. Pawelczyk, 2015, PLoS One

Respiratory modulation of human autonomic function on Earth

Dwain L. Eckberg, William H. Cooke, André Diedrich, Italo Biaggioni, Jay C. Buckey, James A. Pawelczyk, Andrew C. Ertl, James F. Cox, Tom A. Kuusela, Kari U.O. Tahvanainen, Tadaaki Mano, Satoshi Iwase, Friedhelm J. Baisch, Benjamin D. Levine, Beverley Adams-Huet, David Robertson, C. Gunnar Blomqvist, 2016, Journal of Physiology on p. 5611-5627

Respiratory modulation of human autonomic function: long-term neuroplasticity in space

Dwain L. Eckberg, André Diedrich, William H. Cooke, Italo Biaggioni, Jay C. Buckey, James A. Pawelczyk, Andrew C. Ertl, James F. Cox, Tom A. Kuusela, Kari U.O. Tahvanainen, Tadaaki Mano, Satoshi Iwase, Friedhelm J. Baisch, Benjamin D. Levine, Beverley Adams-Huet, David Robertson, C. Gunnar Blomqvist, 2016, Journal of Physiology on p. 5629-5646

News Articles Featuring James Pawelczyk

Jun 24, 2019

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Mocked For Tweet Mixing Up Mars With The Moon

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was slammed on Twitter for a tweet he sent out on Sunday that said OCCUPY MARS with a picture that he believed was Mars.

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