For generations, the wounds left by early childhood trauma have been treated as permanent alterations to the developing mind — damage written into the brain before a child could choose otherwise. A new study from Wuhan University offers a quieter, more hopeful revision to that story: during adolescence, the brain may still be listening, still capable of rewriting what stress has inscribed. By restoring a fundamental molecular signaling pathway through environmental enrichment, researchers have shown that the trajectory toward schizophrenia is not inevitable — and that the window for interventi