Discontinued drugs in 2006: central and peripheral nervous system drugs

Abstract

This perspective describes compounds that target the central and peripheral nervous system, whose development was discontinued in 2006 and which were being developed for the treatment of a range of neurological disorders, including chronic pain, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and anxiety. These discontinued candidates are described by disease area, based on information available from the Pharmaprojects database.

Keywords::

• Alzheimer's disease
• anxiety
• central nervous system
• epilepsy
• multiple sclerosis
• neuropathic pain
• Parkinson's disease
• peripheral nervous system