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Treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Patent 4588721 Issued on May 13, 1986. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject November 26, 2004. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

3907820

6-Phenyl-4H-s-triazolo[4,3-a][1,4]benzodiazepines
Patent #: 3987052
Issued on: 10/19/1976
Inventor: Hester, Jr.

Benzodiazepine derivatives Patent #: 4116956
Issued on: 09/26/1978
Inventor: Meguro ,   et al.

Inventor

Assignee

Application

No. 06/674616 filed on 11/26/1984

US Classes:

514/220Tricyclo ring system having the seven-membered hetero ring as one of the cyclos

Examiners

Primary: Friedman, Stanley J.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

A61K 31/55 (20060101)

Abstract

Therapeutic process for treating the negative symptoms of schizophrenia in humans comprising the systematic administration of a compound of the formula ##STR1## X is a member selected from the group consisting of --H, --CH3, and --CH2 --O--R;wherein R is hydrogen, alkyl of from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, inclusive, ##STR2## wherein n is 0 to 16, inclusive, and m is 1 to 16 inclusive; Y is hydrogen or, provided when Z is hydrogen and X is CH3, hydroxy;Z is hydrogen or, provided when Y is hydrogen and X is --CH3, chloro;including the N-oxides and pharmacologically acceptable acid addition salts thereof in combination with a pharmaceutical carrier.

Other References

  • Lingjaerde, "Benzodiazepines in the Treatment of Schizophrenia", The Benzodiazepines : From Molecular Biology to Clinical Practice, Raven Press, New York, (1983), pp. 369-381
  • Lingjaerde, Acta Psychiat. Scand. 65: 339-354, (1982)
  • Amer. Jr. of Psychiatry, vol. 139, No. 3, Mar. 1982, pp. 297-302, "Ventricular Enlargement in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Positive and Negative Symptoms" by N. C. Andreasen, et al
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  • Comprehensive Psychiatry, vol. 7, No. 6, Dec. 1966, pp. 488-493, "Therapeutic Studies in Therapy Resistant Schizophrenic Patients" by T. M. Itil, et al
  • British Medical Journal, Jan. 12, 1980, pp. 66-68, "Molecular Pathology of Schizophrenia: More than One Disease Process?" by T. J. Crow
  • British Jr. Psychiatry, vol. 137, (1980), pp. 379-386, "Positive and Negative Schizophrenic Symptoms and the Role of Dopamine" by A. V. P. Mackay
  • Arch. Gen. Psychiatry, vol. 36, Nov. 1979, pp. 1325-1330, "Thought, Language and Communication Disorders" by N. C. Andreasen
  • Amer. Jr. of Psychiatry, vol. 136, No. 7, Jul. 1979, pp. 944-947, "Affective Flattening and the Criteria for Schizophrenia", by N. C. Andreasen
  • Siris, Samuel G., et al, "Drug Treatment of Acute Schizophrenia", Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, edited by A. Rifkin, John Wright PSG, Inc., (1983) pp. 237-280
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