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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.
It is modeled after the recommendations of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), a National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel, the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS), and others.1-5 Question 2. What other tests can be performed to evaluate a patient for secondary causes of dementia?