Pharmaceutical compositions for neuroprotection containing arylcyclohexylamines

A method of treating a human being to prevent cerebral attacks which occur during acute ailments or diseases and to protect the brain against neuronal loss or to extend neuronal life in the cerebral cortex, the hippocampus and the cerebellum by administering to a human being in need thereof an effective amount of a neuroprotective medicament including as its active ingredient an arylcyclohexylamine in accordance with the formulas:

• ##STR66## in which:
• R.sup.1 represents ##STR67## with R.sup.4 being a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, an iodine atom or a methyl radical, R.sup.2 a hydrogen atom, the OH radical or the CH.sub.3 radical and R.sup.3 a hydrogen atom or the radical CH.sub.2 R.sup.5 with R.sup.5 representing H, OH, Cl, Br or CH.sub.3 COO, provided that R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are not both a hydrogen atom, or an addition salt to a pharmaceutically acceptable acid of said arylcyclohexylamine.