Welcome to the Synapse Centre for Neurodevelopment, ESNEFT
The Synapse Centre for Neurodevelopment operates from the Research and Development Department at the UK National Health Service (NHS) East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT). It is a research centre designed to combine expertise from paediatric physicians; allied health professionals; industry and academic institutions.
Our ultimate aim is to research and improve knowledge in this important field and provide much needed support and new evidence-based personalised approaches to therapies, helping those with a range of neurodisabling conditions including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Cerebral Palsy and genetic syndromes.
The research themes the Centre will be targeting within the field of neurodisability include: the microbiome/gut-brain axis; immunity/metabolism; sleep; behaviour; and excitation-inhibition imbalance in the brain.
Centre of Excellence
We aim to improve knowledge in this important field and so provide much needed support and new evidence based therapies to those with a range of neurodisabling conditions including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy and genetic syndromes.
Donate to the Cause
For more information please visit our Synapse Centre Donations page

Patient Recruitment
Coming soon.
LATEST NEWS
Read the latest news from The Synapse Centre.
New article on sleep apnoea available!
Synapse team member Dr Jo-Anne Johnson’s article on improvements in asthma and sleep apnoea over lockdown has been published in ‘The Conversation’....
New Synapse lecture presentation available!
Please visit our Blog page for our first presentation in the Synapse Lecture Series on the Microbiome by Professor Carding, Quadram Institute.
Welcome to the website for ESNEFT’s new Synapse Centre for Neurodevelopment!
Welcome to the website for the Synapse Centre for Neurodevelopment, ESNEFT! The aim of this centre is to provide our local families with meaningful...