Disclosed are compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar, Q.sup.1, Q.sup.2, R.sup.1, W and X are substituents as defined herein, which compounds are water-soluble CRF.sub.1 receptor antagonists, and are therefore useful for the treatment of psychiatric disorders and neurological diseases, including major depression, anxiety-related disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, supranuclear palsy and feeding disorders, as well as treatment of immunological, cardiovascular or heart-related diseases and colonic hypersensitivity associated with psychopathological disturbance and stress.

Disclosed are compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar, R.sup.1, W and X are substituents as defined herein, which compounds are (1) antagonists at CRF.sub.1 receptors and are, therefore, useful in the diagnosis and treatment of stress related disorders such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as depression, headache and anxiety; and (2) are neuropeptide Y.sub.1 receptor antagonists, and are therefore useful in the treatment of a variety of clinical conditions which are characterized by the presence of an excess of neuropeptide Y.

Disclosed are compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar, R.sup.1, W and X are substituents as defined herein, which compounds are effective neuropeptide Y1 receptor antagonists, and are therefore useful in the treatment of a wide variety of clinical conditions which are characterized by the presence of an excess of neuropeptide Y.

Disclosed are compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar is optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl R.sub.1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R.sub.7 is hydrogen or alkyl; R.sub.2 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl or alkoxy; or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 taken together with the ring to which they are attached form a 5-9 membered saturated or aromatic ring optionally having a hetero atom selected from oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or heteroaryl groups; or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a 5-8 membered ring; and R.sub.5 is hydrogen, halogen, straight or branched chain lower alkyl having 1-6 carbon atoms, or straight or branched chain lower alkoxy or thioalkoxy having 1-6 carbon atoms, which compounds are highly selective partial agonists or antagonists at human Corticotropin-Releasing Factor 1 (CRF1) receptors and are useful in the diagnosis and treatment of treating stress related disorders such as post trumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as depression, headache and anxiety.

Disclosed are compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar, R.sup.1, W, X and m are substituents as defined herein. These compounds are modulators of CRF receptors and are therefore useful for treating affective disorder, anxiety, depression, headache, irritable bowel syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder, supranuclear palsy, immune suppression, Alzheimer's disease, gastrointestinal diseases, anorexia nervosa or other feeding disorder, drug addiction, drug or alcohol withdrawal symptoms, inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular or heart-related diseases, fertility problems, human immunodeficiency virus infections, hemorrhagic stress, obesity, infertility, head and spinal cord traumas, epilepsy, stroke, ulcers, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, hypoglycemia or a disorder the treatment of which can be effected or facilitated by antagonizing CRF, including but not limited to disorders induced or facilitated by CRF, in mammals, comprising: administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula I.