Depression decisions — 2023

The Veteran's neurocognitive disorder with mixed anxiety and depressive features, claimed as depression, insomnia, and anxiety, is granted as secondary to his service-connected TBI.,His unspecified personality disorder, claimed as schizoid personality, is denied due to misdiagnosis during service.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for headaches has been denied.,The Veteran's claims for service connection for a liver condition and an acquired psychiatric disability have been remanded.

The Board has granted service connection for right and left knee disabilities, as well as a depressive disorder secondary to the now-service-connected bilateral knee disabilities. The claims of service connection for sinusitis, headache disorder, allergic rhinitis, type II diabetes mellitus, polymyositis and inflammatory myopathy, back disability, and anxiety disorder are being remanded.