Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2002

The Board has determined that the veteran's claim of service connection for lumbosacral strain was denied in February 1984 and no new and material evidence has been received to reopen this claim. The other issues on appeal have not been decided.

The Board denied service connection for COPD, malaria, and a psychiatric disorder. The veteran's COPD was found unrelated to service, malaria was not incurred in or aggravated by service, and the psychiatric disorder was also unrelated to service.

The Board found no evidence of an acquired psychiatric disorder related to the veteran's active service and denied his claim for service connection.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) prior to December 14, 1988. The Board also denied his claim for an earlier effective date for basic eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA).

The Board finds that the overpayment was not properly established due to administrative error, and therefore grants the veteran's waiver of recovery.

The Board affirmed the reduction of the veteran's schedular rating for his service-connected schizophrenic reaction from 50% to 30%, effective July 1, 1966.

The Board has determined that the evidence does not constitute new and material to reopen the claim of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, finding no verified in-service stressor and insufficient evidence to support a diagnosis of PTSD.

The Board found that the veteran's paranoid schizophrenia did not begin in service and is not related to service, thus denying his claim for service connection.

The Board has determined that the veteran's psychiatric disorder is not due to an undiagnosed illness and cannot be service connected as a result of his Persian Gulf service.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of service connection for a chronic psychiatric disability, to include schizophrenia, as new and material evidence has been submitted.

The Board denied service connection for the veteran's psychiatric disability, including PTSD, finding that there was no evidence of a current diagnosis and no link to service.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for an effective date prior to April 18, 2000 for service connection of schizophrenia and sinusitis due to lack of evidence showing intent to file a claim earlier.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disability, including paranoid schizophrenia, finding that there was no current evidence of such condition and noting that any previous diagnosis of schizophrenia occurred years after service. The claim was based on allegations of military service-related stressors without supporting medical documentation.

The Board found that the veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder was not incurred in or aggravated by active service and denied his claim.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, due to a lack of evidence supporting the occurrence of the alleged in-service assault and battery.

The Board has determined that new and material evidence was submitted to reopen the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, thus granting the reopening of the claim.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection due to new and material evidence submitted. The acquired psychiatric disorder, including psychosis, schizophrenia, major depression, or PTSD, is presumed to have existed prior to service and was not aggravated by service.

The Board denied the veteran's request to reopen his claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder other than PTSD, finding that no new and material evidence had been submitted.

The Board has granted service connection for PTSD and skin cysts, but denied the claims for low back disability and multiple shell fragment wounds (SFW) of the right leg due to lack of evidence supporting these conditions. The skin cysts are presumed to be related to exposure to herbicides in Vietnam.