Patent ID: 8338410

Claim:
A method for treating neurone deteriorations in an individual, comprising administering to said individual a therapeutically effective quantity of at least one compound having neuroprotective activity selected from the group consisting of formula (III): and formula (IV): or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts; in which neurone deteriorations are linked to diseases selected from the group consisting of: epilepsy, ischaemic cerebral vascular accidents, neuropathic diseases selected from the group consisting of polyneuropathy, alcoholic polyneuropathy, toxic or drug-induced neuropathy, vincristine-induced neuropathy, neuropathy associated with a metabolic disturbance, neuropathy associated with diabetes, neuropathy associated with an inflammatory process, neuropathy associated with Guillain-Barre syndrome, infectious neuropathic diseases, Herpes zoster, and radiculoneuropathic diseases, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, schizophrenia, depression, brain tumours, Parkinson's disease Alzheimer's disease, and Pick's disease.