Doctors and determine if someone has dementia but they cannot prove if Alzheimer’s is the reason for it. If can only be proven after death if someone has AD. They can do physical and neurological testing. This includes balance, coordination, muscle tone and reflexes, sense of hearing and vison, also a simple task of getting out of the chair and walking across the room. A MRI and CT scan of the brain can also be done to see if there are any other conditions that may be adding to the symptoms. A Positron Emission Tomography (PET) can also be done. This is when doctors inject you with a low-level radioactive tracer. Then they follow the tracer with an overhead scanner. According to the being Mayo Clinic of Alzheimer’s disease, there is future testing that is being considered. This includes, more sensitive test of mental abilities and measurement of key proteins or protein patterns in blood or the spinal
Doctors and determine if someone has dementia but they cannot prove if Alzheimer’s is the reason for it. If can only be proven after death if someone has AD. They can do physical and neurological testing. This includes balance, coordination, muscle tone and reflexes, sense of hearing and vison, also a simple task of getting out of the chair and walking across the room. A MRI and CT scan of the brain can also be done to see if there are any other conditions that may be adding to the symptoms. A Positron Emission Tomography (PET) can also be done. This is when doctors inject you with a low-level radioactive tracer. Then they follow the tracer with an overhead scanner. According to the being Mayo Clinic of Alzheimer’s disease, there is future testing that is being considered. This includes, more sensitive test of mental abilities and measurement of key proteins or protein patterns in blood or the spinal