Depression decisions — 2006

The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder.

The Board has granted a 10 percent disability rating for the veteran's service-connected hypertensive blood pressure from August 28, 2002 to May 18, 2003. The claim for an increased initial disability rating for bilateral hearing loss is denied.

The Board has found that the record is not sufficiently developed to ensure an informed decision and has ordered additional examinations, records reviews, and evidence collection. The veteran's nonservice-connected conditions need to be rated appropriately.

The Board found that the veteran's mental disorders, including depression and PTSD, were not caused by any fault on the part of VA in providing medical care.

The Board has determined that the veteran's migraine disorder and major depression are not proximately due to or the result of his service-connected right eye disorder.

The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a current disability of left hemiparesis. The issues of service connection for residuals of September 1995 cerebrovascular accident, thoracic spine disability, and right hemiparesis are pending as they require additional medical opinions or examinations.

The Board has remanded the case to the RO for consideration of new evidence submitted by the veteran and to prepare a Supplemental Statement of the Case (SSOC).

The Board has granted service connection for major depressive disorder, finding that the veteran's current condition is related to his military service. The gastrointestinal reflux disease issue remains pending and will be remanded.

The veteran's service-connected headaches are manifested by very frequent prolonged attacks that approximate complete prostration and are productive of severe economic inadaptability, warranting a 50 percent disability evaluation.

The veteran's appeal is remanded for further development, including a VA examination to determine if he has additional disability as a result of the June 2001 treatment at a VA facility and whether any such disability was due to carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or other instance of fault on the part of VA.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of depression, finding that no valid claim was submitted prior to August 16, 2001.

Your claims for service connection are being returned to the RO for additional development. You will be scheduled for a videoconference hearing at the RO.

The Board has determined that the veteran likely has depression that began during his active military service and is granting service connection for this condition.

The veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including medical examinations and a review of her claims by the Board.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection due to lack of new and material evidence for his passive-aggressive personality disorder claim, and found that a nervous disorder (including PTSD and major depression) was not incurred in or aggravated by active service.

The Board has determined that the veteran did not submit a claim for service connection for major depressive disorder prior to November 12, 1999. Therefore, an effective date earlier than November 12, 1999 is denied.

The Board granted service connection for sciatica and depression as secondary to the veteran's service-connected lumbar spine injury.

The appeal is remanded to the RO for further development of evidence related to the veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The appeal was remanded to the RO for scheduling a hearing before a local hearing officer.

The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disability, degenerative changes of the lumbosacral spine, an undiagnosed illness characterized by headaches, sleepiness, poor memory and concentration, and sexual dysfunction, and an undiagnosed illness characterized by low back pain with numbness and weakness of the legs.