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A brain-imaging study can help your doctor zero in on more likely causes for your symptoms and rule out other causes. Brain-imaging procedures your doctor may recommend to help diagnose vascular dementia include: Computerized tomography (CT) scan. For a CT scan, you'll lie on a narrow table that slides into a small chamber.
To detect Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia early on and monitor progression, there are several cognitive evaluations that can assist professionals in a diagnosis. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment is an accurate test that can give examiners insight into a person's cognitive ability. Test Description The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), developed in Canada in 1996, was intended to be a means of accurately detecting levels of cognitive impairment.