Diagnostic criteria for vascular cognitive disorders: a VASCOG statement

Perminder Sachdev¹, Raj Kalaria, John O'Brien+17

• ¹*Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales †Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia ‡Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear §Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK ∥Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden ¶Department of Neurology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India #University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON §§§Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada **Departments of Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ††Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC ‡‡Memory Aging and Cognition Centre, National University Health System, Singapore §§Department of Neurology, University of Southern California and Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA ∥∥University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA ¶¶Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, Vienna, Austria ##Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA ***University Lille Nord de France UDSL and Memory Clinic, CHU, Lille, France †††The Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA ‡‡‡Alzheimer Centre and Department of Neurology, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ∥∥∥Methodist Neurological Institute, Houston, TX.