Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2000

The Board found that the veteran's current psychiatric condition is related to his active service and granted his claim for service connection.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD and schizophrenia, finding that new evidence supports a diagnosis of these conditions. The Board also found that there is sufficient evidence to link his current psychiatric symptoms to his military service in Vietnam.

The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for a 100% rating for schizophrenia is denied. The earliest date on which it was factually ascertainable that there was an increase in the veteran's psychiatric symptomatology warranting the increased rating awarded by the RO is December 15, 1989.

The Board has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of smallpox, finding that there is no competent medical evidence relating the scars on the index fingers and the dorsum of the left hand to the inservice smallpox.

The Board denied service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder and a chronic, acquired psychiatric disorder. The veteran's claims were not well-grounded as there was no competent medical evidence of these conditions.

The Board has granted a 100 percent rating for the service-connected schizophrenic disorder, residual type, with depression. The veteran's service-connected residuals of shrapnel wounds left knee are rated at 10 percent.

The Board has ordered the case to be remanded for further consideration, including considering new evidence submitted by the veteran's attorney.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claims for service connection for PTSD and a psychiatric disorder other than PTSD, as new and material evidence has been submitted.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for asthma and a psychiatric disorder, as well as his requests for higher ratings for right and left knee disorders.

The Board denied service connection for upper gastrointestinal condition, neck disability, psychiatric disorder, and liver condition (hepatitis) due to lack of competent medical evidence of current disabilities.

The Board found no competent medical evidence linking the appellant's current psychiatric disorder to her military service and denied her claim for service connection.

The Board denied both claims: service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and the claim that the gunshot wound to the stomach was due to willful misconduct.

The Board denied the petition to reopen a claim for service connection for an acquired neuropsychiatric disorder, finding that new and material evidence had not been presented.

The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date prior to November 12, 1996, for a 100 percent disability evaluation for schizophrenic reaction with anxiety is denied.

The veteran's death was due to arteriosclerotic heart disease, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and alcohol abuse. The cause of death is not service-connected or related to a service-connected condition.

The Board has determined that the submitted evidence is not new and material, thus denying the veteran's application to reopen his claim for service connection for paranoid schizophrenia.

The Board has determined that the veteran's schizophrenia warrants a 70 percent disability evaluation, reflecting more severe symptomatology than previously considered.

The Board has determined that the veteran's claims for service connection for a nervous disorder and residuals of a head injury are not well-grounded. The evidence does not establish an etiological relationship between these conditions and service.

The Board denied the veteran's claims to reopen his service connection for psychiatric disability, stomach disability, and residuals of frozen feet due to lack of new and material evidence.

The Board denied the claim of service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, concluding that his fatal heart disease was not causally linked to service and a preponderance of evidence supported this decision.