Abstract: A method for treating a neurodegenerative disease or cerebral ischemia arising from conditions selected from the group consisting of Status epilepticus, hypoglycaemia, hypoxia, anoxia, brain trauma, brain oedema, amyotropic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, hypotonia, cardiac infarction, brain pressure (elevated intracranial pressure), ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke, global cerebral ischaemia with heart stoppage, diabetic polyneuropathy, tinnitus, perinatal asphyxia, psychosis, schizophrenia, depression, and Parkinson's disease, the method of treatment comprising administering to a host in need of such treatment a therapeutic amount of a compound of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and R7 are as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions containing a compound of formula (I).

Abstract: Compounds of general formula I wherein X is a single bond, —O—, C-C4-alkylene, or an alkylene bridge having 1 to 8 carbon atoms which may be branched or unbranched and optionally have one or two oxygen atom(s) anywhere in the bridge; R1 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, or phenyl; R2 is hydrogen or methyl; R3 is hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, hydroxy, methyl, or methoxy; R4 is hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl; R5 is hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl; R6 is hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl; R7 is tert-butyl, cyclohexyl, phenyl optionally substituted by R9 and R10, which may be identical or different, or; R8 is hydrogen or C1-C4-alkyl; Z is oxygen, NH, or sulfur; R9 is hydrogen, methyl, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or methoxy; R10 is hydrogen, methyl, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or methoxy; optionally in the form of the individual optical isomers, mixtures of the individual enantiomers or racemates as well as in the form of the free bases or the corresponding acid addition salts

Abstract: The present patent application relates to new substituted 3-phenoxy- or 3-phenylalkyloxy-2-phenyl-propylamines of general formula 1, processes for preparing them and their use as pharmaceutical compositions.

Abstract: A method for treating a neurodegenerative disease or cerebral ischemia arising from conditions selected from the group consisting of Status epilepticus, hypoglycaemia, hypoxia, anoxia, brain trauma, brain oedema, amyotropic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, hypotonia, cardiac infarction, brain pressure (elevated intracranial pressure), ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke, global cerebral ischaemia with heart stoppage, diabetic polyneuropathy, tinnitus, perinatal asphyxia, psychosis, schizophrenia, depression, and Parkinson's disease, the method of treatment comprising administering to a host in need of such treatment a therapeutic amount of a compound of formula (I) 1

Abstract: The invention relates to oxadiazole derivatives of general formula (I) wherein X, Y, Z and R1 are defined as described in the specification and claims, processes for preparing them and their use as pharmaceutical compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to new diphenyl-substituted 5-ring heterocycles of general formula (I) wherein A, X and the groups R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are defined as in the claims, processes for preparing them and their use as pharmaceutical compositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to N-(5-phenyl-tetrahydrofuranyl)methyl- and N-(6-phenyl-tetrahydropyranyl)methyl-substituted 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexahydro-2,6-methano-3-benzazocin-10-ols of general formula 1, processes for preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and methods for using such compounds for the treatment of various diseases caused by a functional disorder resulting from overstimulation.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel diphenyl-substituted heterocycles with 6-membered ring of general formula (I) in which A, X and the residues R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in the claims, processes for the preparation thereof and the use thereof as medicaments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new substituted 2,3,3a,4,9,9a-hexahydro-8-hydroxy-1H-benz[f]indole derivatives, processes for preparing them and their use as pharmaceutical compositions.