FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics.
SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to medicine and concerns methods of treating and diagnosing posttraumatic stress disorder in a patient, and also a method of intensifying an ability of the patient to experience a traumatic event herewith not suffering posttraumatic stress disorder. A therapeutically effective amount of (S)-5-aminomethyl-1-(5,7-difluoro-1,2;3,4-tetrahydronaphth-2-yl)-2,3-dihydro-2-thioxo-1H-imidazole (nepicastat), (R)-5-aminomethyl-1-(5,7-difluoro-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphth-2-yl)-2,3-dihydro-2-thioxo-1H-imidazole, their pharmaceutically acceptable salt or their mixture are introduced in the patient.
EFFECT: group of inventions provides the extended range of the methods of treating posttraumatic stress disorder.
18 cl, 187 dwg, 25 ex
