Hypoxia and the Sensory Control of Standing Balance

• Ghods S, Kaylyn H, Debenham M, Dickenson J, Dalton B, Day T, Strzalkowski N. Vestibular balance responses are influences by electrical vestibular stimulation amplitude but not acute normobaric hypoxia (In preperation) 

• Dickenson JA, Harman TS, Kunwar AJ, Thakur N, Dhungel S, Sherpa N, Bigham AW, Brutsaert TD, Day TA, Strzalkowski NDJ. High-altitude hypoxia afters the visual control of standing balance in lowlanders and Tibetan highlanders (submitted) Journal of Neurophysiology

• Dickenson JA, Debenham MIB, Dalton BH, Harman TS, Kunwar AJ, Thakur N, Dhungel S, Sherpa N, Bigham AW, Brutsaert TD, Day TA, Strzalkowski NDJ. Vestibular-evoked balance responses are blunted in lowlanders and Tibetan highlanders with ascent to 4,300 m. (2025) Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. 50:1-10 

• Dickenson JA, Harman TS, Kunwar AJ, Thakur N, Dhungel S, Sherpa N, Bigham AW, Brutsaert TD, Day TA, Strzalkowski NDJ. Incremental ascent to 4,300 m does not alter standing balance in lowlanders or Tibetan highlanders. (2025). European Journal of Applied Physiology 

• Ahuja M, Day TA, Strzalkowski NDJ. Standing balance responses and habituation to sinusoidal optic flow virtual reality perturbations. (2025). Experimental Brain Research 

• Tonellato M, Cates V, Dickenson J, Day T, Strzalkowski N. Acute normobaric hypoxia does not increase postural sway while dual-tasking with and without visual input. (2024). European Journal of Applied Physiology 

Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation

• Dinh AK, Adeoti AJ, Strzalkowski NDJ. Why is essential tremor so difficult to treat? A literature review (2023). Advanced Journal of Graduate Research. 13:29-36 

• Sondergaard RE, Strzalkowski NDJ, Gan LS, Jasaui Y, Furtado A, Pringsheim TM, Sarna JR, Avanzino L, Kiss ZHT, Martino D. Cerebellar brain inhibition is associated with the severity of cervical dystonia (2021). Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. 00:1-8

• Sondergaard RE, Strzalkowski NDJ, Kiss ZHT, Martino D. The trouble with plasticity: botulinum toxin, motor maps and focal hand dystonia. (2021). Clinical Neurophysiology. 132:2208-2210

• Strzalkowski NDJ, Sondergaard RE, Gan LS, Kiss ZHT. Case studies in neuroscience: Deep brain stimulation changes upper limb cortical motor maps in dystonia. (2020). Journal of Neurophysiology 124:268-273 

• Strzalkowski NDJ, Chau A, Gan LS, Kiss ZHT. (2018). Both 50 and 30 Hz continuous theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation depresses the cerebellum. The Cerebellum 

Skin Sensitivity Changes and Space Flight

• Strzalkowski NDJ, Lowrey CR, Perry SD, Williams DR, Wood SJ, Bent LR. (2015). Selective weighting of cutaneous feedback and associated balance impairments following short duration space flight. Neuroscience Letters. 592:94-98 

• Lowrey CR, Perry SD, Strzalkowski NDJ, Williams DR, Wood SJ, Bent LR. (2014). Selective skin sensitivity changes and sensory reweighting following short-duration space flight. Journal of Applied Physiology. 116:683-69 

Foot Sole Tactile Perception and Cutaneous Sensory Feedback

• Katic N, Siqueira RK, Cleland L, Strzalkowski N, Bent L, Raspopovic S, Saal H. Modeling foot sole cutaneous afferents: FootSim. (2023). ISCIENCE 

• Strzalkowski NDJ, Peters RM, Inglis JT, Bent LR. (2018). Cutaneous afferent innervation of the human foot sole: What can we learn from single unit recordings? Journal of Neurophysiology. 120:1233-1246

• Strzalkowski NDJ, Ali RA, Bent LR. (2017). The firing characteristics of foot sole cutaneous mechanoreceptor afferents in response to vibration stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology. 118:1931-1942 

• Strzalkowski NDJ, Incognito AV, Bent LR, Millar PJ. (2016). Cutaneous mechanoreceptor feedback from the hand and foot can modulate muscle sympathetic nerve activity. Frontiers in Neuroscience. Volume 10 Article 568 

• Strzalkowski NDJ, Mildren RL, Bent LR. (2015). Thresholds of cutaneous afferents related to perceptual threshold across the human foot sole. Journal of Neurophysiology. 114:2144-2151 

• Strzalkowski NDJ, Triano JJ, Lam CK, Templeton CA, Bent LR. (2015). Thresholds of skin sensitivity are partially influenced by mechanical properties of the skin on the foot sole. Physiological Report. 3:6 e12425

• Lowrey CR, Strzalkowski NDJ, Bent LR. (2010). Skin sensory information from the dorsum of the foot and ankle is necessary for kinesthesia at the ankle joint. Neuroscience Letters. 485:6-10

Deterministic Teaching 

• Strzalkowski N. Deterministic Teaching: Advice for Teaching the Will-less. (Submitted). Humanizing Science Education: A Collection of Reflective Essays and Creative Works from Science Educators and Learners

Student Perceptions of Assessment Fairness

• Strzalkowski N, Hewitt S. Assessment Fairness and Undergraduate Student Metacognition (In Preparation)

Freewriting in the STEM Classroom 

• Hewitt S, Strzalkowski N. Introducing Science Student to Freewriting. (Submitted). New Directions in Teaching and Learning (Special Issue)

• Strzalkowski N. I am a writer: No longer a Scientist Who Writes. (Submitted). New Directions in Teaching and Learning (Special Issue)

Undergraduate Science Literacy and Education

• Strzalkowski N, Hewitt S, Yeo M, Stalheim O R. Embracing a Pedagogy of Productive Uncertainty in High Education. (Submitted) Co-construction in Higher Education (Special Issue)

• Taylor L, Sobhanzadeh M, Strzalkowski N. Social identity and nature of science knowledge at the undergraduate level. (2025) Imagining SoTL. 5(2), 19–42   

• Strzalkowski N, Sobhanzadeh M. Views and value of an undergraduate general education on advancing student science beliefs, attitudes, and engagement. (2023). Imagining SoTL. 3(2): 89-119 

• Sobhanzadeh M, Dharamsi K, Strzalkowski N, Zizler P, Roettger E. Logic and the development of scientific competencies in first-year general education. (2021). Creative Education. 12: 2580-2593 

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