Objective To explore the TCM symptom and distribution characteristics of anxiety/depression after cerebral lacunar infarction（LI）.Methods LI patients were selected based on recognized diagnosis criteria

and were divided into two groups

and observation group consisting of LI patients complicated with anxiety or depression and a control group of simple LI patients.The case-control study was carried out for the scale scoring and syndrome observation.Results Totally 43 LI patients were included 17（39.5%） in the control group and 26（60.5%） in the observation group.There was no statistic difference between two groups in terms of occurring frequencies of each syndrome（P>0.05）.Logistic regression analysis showed that yin deficiency with yang hyperactivity syndrome and blood deficiency syndrome were related with depression and yin deficiency with yang hyperactivity syndrome with anxiety.Conclusion Simple LI and LI accompanied by anxiety/depression showed no difference in distribution of TCM syndromes.Yin deficiency with yang hyperactivity syndrome is common in LI accompanied by anxiety.Both blood deficiency and yin deficiency with yang hyperactivity syndrome are common in LI accompanied by depression.