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Most seizures are self-limited, lasting no more than a few minutes. The persistence of a seizure lasting longer than several minutes is usually a cause for alarm as physiological mechanisms terminating the seizure may have failed. Why seizures typically do not continue indefinitely, and how intrinsic anti-convulsant mechanisms in the brain lead to seizure termination, are questions that potentially offer new avenues for developing novel treatments for epilepsy, as well as offering insights into brain autoregulatory mechanisms.