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| Lacunar stroke | Deep intracerebral haemorrhage | Chronic vascular parkinsonism | Vascular dementia | Points |
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| (i) One of the recognised lacunar syndromes (unilateral motor/sensory signs involving the whole of at least 2 of the 3 bodyparts (face, arm, and leg)) | (i) Spontaneous haemorrhage confirmed by CT scan in the thalamus, basal ganglia or pons, presumably due to CSVD | (i) Subacute or acute onset | (i) Abrupt onset | 2 |
| (ii) No disturbances of consciousness or cortical functions | (ii) Exclusion of other causes (e.g., trauma, altered hemostasis, haemorrhagic necrosis, cerebralvenous thrombosis, rupture of an aneurysm or arteriovenous malformation, other arteriopathies including cerebral amyloid angiopathy, moyamoya disease) | (ii) Stepwise progression of symptoms | (ii) Stepwise progression of symptoms | 1 |
| (iii) a small hyperintense, sharply marginated subcortical lesion ≥3 mm <15 mm in diameter on T2-weighted MRI, which is compatible with the clinical findings listed above | | (iii) Presence of vascular risk factors | (iii) Fluctuating course of disorder | 2 |
| | | (iv) Predominant signs of lower body parkinsonism | (iv) Nocturnal confusion (sundowning) | 1 |
| (v) Lack of significant clinical response to L-Dopa | (v) Relative preservation of personality | 1 |
| (vi) Typical radiological findings of CSVD | (vi) Depression | 1 |
| | (vii) Somatic complaints | 1 |
| | (viii) Emotional lability | 1 |
| | (ix) History of hypertension | 1 |
| | (x) History of stroke | 2 |
| | (xi) Evidence of associated atherosclerosis | 1 |
| | (xii) Focal neurological symptoms | 2 |
| | (xiii) Focal neuroradiological findings | 2 |
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