Asian Americans' childhood emotional abuse, emotional neglect, and opioid use: Distress intolerance as moderator.

Asian Americans are highly underrepresented in opioid use research, despite recent studies demonstrating the presence of opioid use behaviors in Asian Americans and distinct negative outcomes of opioid use among Asian Americans in comparison to White adults. Emotional abuse and emotional neglect are important risk factors that may impact opioid use. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate (a) the associations between childhood emotional trauma (emotional abuse and emotional neglect) and opioid use, and (b) the role of distress intolerance as a moderator.

Asian Americans' childhood emotional abuse, emotional neglect, and hazardous alcohol use: Resilience as moderator.

Asian Americans are highly underrepresented in alcohol use research, despite recent studies demonstrating the presence of hazardous alcohol use behaviors and increasing alcohol use rates among Asian Americans. Emotional abuse and emotional neglect serve as important individual factors that may impact hazardous alcohol use. The purpose of this study was thus to investigate (a) the association between childhood emotional trauma and hazardous alcohol use and (b) the role of resilience as a moderator.

Distinct Action Signals by Subregions in the Nucleus Accumbens during STOP-Change Performance.

The nucleus accumbens (NAc) is thought to contribute to motivated behavior by signaling the value of reward-predicting cues and the delivery of anticipated reward. The NAc is subdivided into core and shell, with each region containing different populations of neurons that increase or decrease firing to rewarding events. While there are numerous theories of functions pertaining to these subregions and cell types, most are in the context of reward processing, with fewer considering that the NAc might serve functions related to action selection more generally.

"It's like having a superpower": Reclaiming creativity and the intersectional experiences of trans young adults of color.

Trans young adults of color experience systemic harm that contributes to negative health outcomes and hinders their ability to live freely. The present study used a grounded theory qualitative methodology rooted in a critical-ideological paradigm to understand the intersections of racial and gender oppression. Trans young adults of color from across the United States ( = 15; ages 20-29; majority racial identities: Asian, Black, and multiracial; majority gender identities: nonbinary and transmasculine) participated in a semistructured interview.

Sexual, gendered, and internalized racism's associations with disordered eating among sexual minority Asian American men: Emotional eating as mediator.

Research related to disordered eating among sexual minority Asian American men is scarce. Thus, the present study utilized an intersectional framework to examine how three different forms of racism (i.e.

Characterization of Newly Bred Strains for Higher Production of Cordycepin through HPLC and URP-PCR Analysis.

, a member of Ascomycota, a mushroom referred to as caterpillar Dongchung-ha-cho, is commercially valuable because of its high content of bioactive substances, including cordycepin, and its potential for artificial cultivation. Cordycepin (3'-deoxyadenosine) is highly associated with the pharmacological effects of . is heterothallic in that two mating-type loci, idiomorph and , exist discretely in two different spores.

Development of High Cordycepin-Producing Strains.

, known as Dong-Chong-Xia-Cao, produces the most cordycepin among species and can be cultured artificially. For these reasons, is widely used as herb or functional food in the East Asia. In this study, we developed a new strain of that produces higher cordycepin content than parent strains through mating-based sexual reproduction.