PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATION FOR PREVENTING AND TREATING CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To direct a compound useful for preventing and treating central nervous system disorders and to provide a method for treating patients with a central nervous system disorder or patients highly susceptible to a central nervous system disorder, especially a method for treating patients with a central nervous system disorder associated with neurotransmitter dysfunction. SOLUTION: A patient highly susceptible to a central nervous system disorder or a patient already suffering from such disorder is treated by administration of an effective amount of an aryl-substituted aliphatic amine compound, an aryl-substituted olefinic amine compound, or an aryl-substituted acetylenic amine compound. A representative compound among them is (E)-N-methyl-5-(3-pyridinyl)-4-pentene-2-amine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT