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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.
Other test we do for very early dementia are having the patient list every animal or vegetable they can think of in one minute. We also use a test of word list remembering. If there is a problem you'll want to track it down and treat it. If there are no other symptoms, most of the time the forgetting is benign. If there is no problem, hopefully it would give you peace of mind.