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Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.18 — 338,698 ratings — published 2013
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,210,008 ratings — published 2015
Steelheart (The Reckoners, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.14 — 199,191 ratings — published 2013
I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.93 — 354,331 ratings — published 2010
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.07 — 234,744 ratings — published 2005
Glass Sword (Red Queen, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.77 — 437,906 ratings — published 2016
Firefight (The Reckoners, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.25 — 114,855 ratings — published 2015
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,293,600 ratings — published 2011
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,375,314 ratings — published 2011
Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.09 — 804,467 ratings — published 2013
Super Human (The New Heroes/Quantum Prophecy, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,819 ratings — published 2006
Gone (Gone, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.87 — 212,854 ratings — published 2008
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.06 — 483,712 ratings — published 2008
Super Powereds: Year 1 (Super Powereds, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.34 — 14,414 ratings — published 2013
The Power of Six (Lorien Legacies, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.14 — 143,879 ratings — published 2011
Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.44 — 712,880 ratings — published 2014
The Awakening (The New Heroes/Quantum Prophecy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,700 ratings — published 2006
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.27 — 924,763 ratings — published 2014
Vengeful (Villains, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.11 — 136,849 ratings — published 2018
The Games of Supervillainy (The Supervillainy Saga, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,546 ratings — published 2015
Seed (The Dire Saga, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.31 — 771 ratings — published 2016
Born (The Dire Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,069 ratings — published
The Rules of Supervillainy (The Supervillainy Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,086 ratings — published 2015
Ex-Heroes (Ex-Heroes, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,840 ratings — published 2010
Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain (Please Don't Tell My Parents, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,812 ratings — published 2014
Super Powereds: Year 2 (Super Powereds, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,917 ratings — published 2013
The Rise of Nine (Lorien Legacies, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.16 — 113,614 ratings — published 2012
The Warrior Heir (The Heir Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.94 — 55,432 ratings — published 2006
The Ascension: A Super Human Clash (The New Heroes/Quantum Prophecy, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,627 ratings — published 2011
Playing for Keeps (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,280 ratings — published 2008
Playing with Fire (Tales of an Extraordinary Girl, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,886 ratings — published 2006
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,531,737 ratings — published 2005
Virals (Virals, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.94 — 41,236 ratings — published 2010
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.24 — 27,948 ratings — published 2017
Renegades (Renegades, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.11 — 169,657 ratings — published 2017
The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.81 — 18,975 ratings — published 2020
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,179 ratings — published 2019
Hench (Hench, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.00 — 28,190 ratings — published 2020
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,141,670 ratings — published 2012
Ruin and Rising (Shadow and Bone, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.97 — 603,829 ratings — published 2014
Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.80 — 697,891 ratings — published 2013
The Never Hero (Chronicles of Jonathan Tibbs #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,158 ratings — published 2014
Starfall (The Chronicles of Fid #3)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.66 — 469 ratings — published 2019
Behind Distant Stars (The Chronicles of Fid #2)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.58 — 473 ratings — published 2018
Fid's Crusade (The Chronicles of Fid #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.46 — 730 ratings — published 2018
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ワンパンマン 1 一撃 [One Punch Man 1: Ichigeki] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.46 — 88,196 ratings — published 2012
Semper Fi (Superhuman, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.30 — 976 ratings — published
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.90 — 155,985 ratings — published 2013
Countdown to Apocalypse (Superhuman #2)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,615 ratings — published
Super Powereds: Year 3 (Super Powereds, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.58 — 10,846 ratings — published 2015
“A drug called suramin was already on the market for the treatment of the sleeping sickness spread by the tsetse fly in Africa and was known to bind to purine receptors on cells found throughout the body. Dr. Naviaux used it on both autistic and nonautistic mice when they were six months old.IV The mice were then tested on how well they interacted with mice they had never before met, and on whether they preferred sameness when put through mazes, as many autistic humans do.
Suramin levels in the blood declined naturally, dropping by half for every week that passed after the initial dose. When five weeks had passed, the mice were put through the tests one final time. Throughout the study, a few mice were sacrificed from both the control and the experimental groups so the biochemistry of their neurons could be analyzed.
Dr. Naviaux and his colleagues reported in Translation Psychiatry in 2014 that while some brain cells, called Purkinje cells, that would normally be found in healthy brains did not suddenly reemerge in these autistic mice, suramin ended the cellular defensive lockdown. Moreover, the team discovered major behavioral changes in these animals.”
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Suramin levels in the blood declined naturally, dropping by half for every week that passed after the initial dose. When five weeks had passed, the mice were put through the tests one final time. Throughout the study, a few mice were sacrificed from both the control and the experimental groups so the biochemistry of their neurons could be analyzed.
Dr. Naviaux and his colleagues reported in Translation Psychiatry in 2014 that while some brain cells, called Purkinje cells, that would normally be found in healthy brains did not suddenly reemerge in these autistic mice, suramin ended the cellular defensive lockdown. Moreover, the team discovered major behavioral changes in these animals.”
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“In case you think I am just making some sort of wild speculation here about Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon coming true, think again. In Keyes’s story, a mentally disabled janitor named Charlie is healed of his handicap with an experimental medical procedure shortly after it does the same for a mouse named Algernon.10 Charlie’s tale was the stuff of fiction when it was written in the 1950s, but—based upon work being done in cellular biology—it does not look as if it will remain fiction for much longer.
Robert Naviaux, a cellular biologist at UC San Diego, was fascinated by autistic savants and curious about what precisely was happening in their brains that granted them their incredible abilities. “Neurons that are developing contacts in the brain ‘look’ for little lights in the darkness, the metabolic activity of other neurons that have been activated by use,” explained Dr. Naviaux. Once they find these lights, they send out projections called axons to handshake with them and form connections.”
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Robert Naviaux, a cellular biologist at UC San Diego, was fascinated by autistic savants and curious about what precisely was happening in their brains that granted them their incredible abilities. “Neurons that are developing contacts in the brain ‘look’ for little lights in the darkness, the metabolic activity of other neurons that have been activated by use,” explained Dr. Naviaux. Once they find these lights, they send out projections called axons to handshake with them and form connections.”
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