The invention relates to medicine, in particular to pharmacology and to medicinal agents exhibiting a neurotropic and cerebrovascular activity. The novelty of the invention consists in that an N-carbomoyl-methyl-4-phenyl-2-pyrrolidon agent injected into an organism displays an universal pronounced effect in the form of the one hundred percent survival of animals, eliminates the development of a neurological symptom complex of a cerebral stroke of different aetiologies, localizes a cerebral affection area and the destructive development thereof. It is proved, that the inventive agent exhibits universal neurotropic (neuromodulator) activity and produces a neuroprotective-cerebrovascular action.