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ORPHA:166418

Eating reflex epilepsy

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: Eating epilepsy · Eating seizures

Publications

1,237

85.1th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,091

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare reflex characterized by in most cases complex partial triggered by different components of eating, such as the sight of food, proprioceptive, olfactory or gustatory sensations, chewing, salivation, and gastric distension after food intake. The may be or associated with symptomatic localization-related epilepsies.

How rare: 1-9 / 1 000 000 — roughly one to nine people per million. In a city the size of Kolkata, perhaps a few dozen.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (1)

eating epilepsy

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

No specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    1,237 matched papers (622 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot found

    No HPO disease–phenotype associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  4. Animal modelNot found

    No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  5. Orphan designationNot found

    No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source

  6. Interventional trialPartial

    None under the specific name; 2 for broader category reflex epilepsy

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

None returned for this Mondo ID. That often means “not linked under this ID,” not “no clinical features.”

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

None returned for this Mondo ID. Empty here is not proof that no model organism work exists under another name or gene.

Monarch fetch 2026-07-29

Therapies

Designations, candidates, and chemicals

FDA OOPD and EMA orphan designations, Open Targets clinical candidates, and CTD chemical associations via MyDisease.info. These never change the interventional-trial headline.

Orphan designation (FDA · EMA)

No designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name on the FDA OOPD mirror or EMA orphan register. Absence here is not proof that none exists under another wording.

Open Targets candidates

No drugs or clinical candidates returned for this Mondo ID on Open Targets.

CTD chemicals (MyDisease.info)

No CTD chemical associations returned for this Mondo ID.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

1,237

1,237 papers have been published on this condition. That is a real research literature — still far smaller than common diseases (breast cancer: over 700,000 papers). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=3967) is 59.

1,237 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 59 (publications denominator n=3967).

622 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 85.1th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 1,237 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,091

Distinct author names in 200 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.

  1. 01
    Bharath RD3 papers · 2026

    Department of Neuroimaging and Interventional Radiology, NIMHANS, Hosur Road, Bangalore, India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Saini J3 papers · 2026

    Department of Neuroimaging and Interventional Radiology, NIMHANS, Hosur Road, Bangalore, India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Sinha S3 papers · 2026

    MEG Research Lab, NIMHANS, Hosur Road, Bangalore, India; Department of Neurology, NIMHANS, Hosur Road, Bangalore, India. Electronic address: sanjib_sinha2004@yahoo.co.in.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Striano P3 papers · 2021

    Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genoa, "G. Gaslini" Institute, Genova, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Al-Beltagi M2 papers · 2025

    Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Algharbia, Egypt.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Alon S2 papers · 2020

    Eating Disorders Clinic, Psychiatric Division, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Appolinario JC2 papers · 2025

    Grupo de Obesidade e Transtornos Alimentares, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Appolinário JC2 papers · 2024

    Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Institute of Psychiatry (UFRJ), Group of Obesity and Eating Disorders (GOTA), Av. Venceslau Brás, 71 - Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22290-140, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Asranna A2 papers · 2026

    Department of Neurology, NIMHANS, Hosur Road, Bangalore, India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Bianciardi E2 papers · 2025

    Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

0

interventional trials for this specific condition

No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present). 2 trials are registered for reflex epilepsy, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 11 September 2026 · last trial check 11 September 2026

No matched interventional trials. This is true for 77.2% of diseases in the trials denominator (5501 of 7126). Here are the researchers publishing on it.

high confidence · 38.6th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.

2 interventional trials matched reflex epilepsy, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.

Broader category: reflex epilepsy

2

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Other registries (secondary)

Broader net from EU CTIS, ISRCTN, and ICTRP when available — deduped against ClinicalTrials.gov IDs already counted above. Dual-model LLM relevance gates what we keep. These rows are not added to the interventional headline.

raw 58 · after dedupe 58 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 58 · dropped 0 · fetched 2026-07-30

Source notes: ictrp: Error: ICTRP public search unavailable (WHO portal is SPA-only; SOAP needs partnership). Tried: https://apps.who.int/tri

No secondary-registry studies passed dual-model relevance for this condition name (after dedupe).

Uncertain / not reviewed (58)

Where to find support

Condition-specific patient organisations, when Orphanet lists them, are on the disease’s Orphanet page. We also link umbrella groups that support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families.

Orphanet entry for Eating reflex epilepsy — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Eating reflex epilepsy" OR "Eating epilepsy" OR "Eating seizures"

Run this search on Europe PMC

ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Eating reflex epilepsy" OR "Eating epilepsy" OR "Eating seizures"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"reflex epilepsy"

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T08:24:41.874Z