MTOR and status epilepticus: Administration of mTOR inhibitors, i.e. rapamycin, prevents the development of absence seizure in WAG/Rij rats (Russo et al., 2013), kindling seizure in Tsc1GFAPCKO mice (Zeng et al., 2008) and kainite-induced status epilepticus in rats (Macias et al., 2013).