Patent ID: 6897212

Claim:
A method of treating oppositional defiant disorder in a patient diagnosed therewith wherein said method comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of indole compound I, represented by general formula I, or the indole compound I as a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt of the compound of general formula I to said patient, wherein: n is 2 or 3; R 1 designates hydrogen, a lower alkyl, benzyl, phenyl or 2-, 3- or 4-pyridyl; R 2 and R 3 are each independently alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl, halogeno-phenyl or lower alkoxy phenyl; R 4 designates hydrogen or a lower alkyl and is attached to carbon atom 6 or 7 of the indole nucleus; and X and Y designate lower alkyl, hydroxy lower alkyl, lower acyloxy alkyl, carbamoyloxy lower alkyl and phenyl lower alkyl or alternatively X and Y may be linked together and then constitute, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, an NXY moiety that is an optionally substituted heterocyclic ring.