The present application relates to novel substituted aminopyridine derivatives, to their use in therapy, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the derivatives, to the use of said derivatives in the manufacture of a medicament, and to therapeutic methods comprising the administration of the derivatives. The present derivatives are useful for treating a disorder responsive to activation of Kv7 channels. Due to the distribution of Kv7 channels within the organism, Kv7 channel modulators are considered potentially useful for the treatment or alleviation of conditions as diverse as CNS disorders, psychiatric disorders, CNS damage caused by trauma, stroke or neurodegenerative illness or diseases, a variety of neuronal hyperexcitability disorders and conditions, epilepsy, pain, neuropathic pain, migraine, tension type headache, learning and cognitive disorders, motion and motor disorders, multiple sclerosis, cardiac disorders, heart failure, cardio-myopathia, inflammatory diseases, ophthalmic conditions, deafness, progressive hearing loss, tinnitus, obstructive or inflammatory airway diseases, for inducing or maintaining bladder control including the treatment or prevention of urinary incontinence.
