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Young adult literature is a booming genre in the publishing industry, but one reviewer says we should be concerned about how dark and lurid the offerings for adolescent readers have become.

An old technology called electrocorticography, or ECoG, uses electrodes placed on the surface of the brain to detect electrical signals coming from the brain itself. Now, researchers are using ECoG to read minds.

Is teen fiction too dark?

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