The paranoia switch how terror rewires our brains and reshapes our behavior and how we can reclaim our courage by martha stout 2007 09 04 martha stout books . The paranoia switch how terror rewires our brains and reshapes our behavior and how we can reclaim our courage ebook martha stout amazonca kindle store. We struggle to control our fear so that we can go about our daily lives our national consciousness has been torqued by trauma in the process transforming our behavior our expectations our legal syste years after september 11 2001 were still scared. Finally her suggestions for how we can reclaim our courage which boil down to striving to be calmer more aware and more rational are too vague to be helpful sept details. The paranoia switch deals exclusively with the politics of fear and how fear brokers use our own limbic systems against us the limbic system is a part of the brain that deals with reading and transmitting human emotions