Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2002

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired neuropsychiatric disorder, finding no medical evidence linking his current disability to any disease or injury incurred during active military service.

The Board has granted the veteran's claim for special monthly pension based on the need of regular aid and attendance due to his bilateral eye disability, which results in concentric contraction of visual fields to 5 degrees or less.

The Board denied service connection for a chronic acquired psychiatric disorder and degenerative disease of the back, including degenerative disc disease and arthritis, both secondary to the veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for an earlier effective date of March 21, 1989 for service connection of his psychiatric disability.

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

The Board finds that chronic paranoid schizophrenia, a type of paranoid schizophrenia, was incurred in service and is granted service connection.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for compensation benefits under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 due to a personal/sexual assault during his VA hospitalization in June 1992, finding that there was no evidence of such an assault and no current disability resulting from it.

The Board has determined that the veteran's condition has improved and no longer requires aid and attendance, thus discontinuing his special monthly compensation based on this need.

The Board has found new and material evidence to reopen the veteran's claim of service connection for schizophrenia, and it is as likely as not that his symptoms began during active service.

The Board found no evidence of a psychiatric disability during service and concluded that the veteran's schizophrenia did not originate in or was not aggravated by military service.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for residuals of a neck injury, including degenerative joint disease. The issue is now pending further development and decision.

The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for residuals of a head injury.

The Board has reopened the claim of service connection for a psychiatric disorder and granted it, finding that new evidence submitted since the last denial supports the claim.

The Board has determined that the veteran does not have PTSD due to a service stressor and therefore, her claim for service connection is denied.

The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection and basic eligibility for nonservice-connected disability pension benefits due to insufficient qualifying active service.

The Board has determined that there was clear and unmistakable error in the January 16, 1986 decision reducing the veteran's 100 percent evaluation for paranoid schizophrenia to 50 percent. The veteran's condition warranted a 100 percent rating at the time.

The Board has determined that the veteran's paranoid type schizophrenia is in remission and does not meet the criteria for an evaluation higher than 50 percent. The veteran's service-connected paranoid schizophrenia does not prevent him from securing and following substantially gainful employment, thus his TDIU claim is also denied.

The Board found that the veteran's paranoid schizophrenia does not warrant a rating higher than 10 percent, as his symptoms do not meet the criteria for a higher rating under Diagnostic Code 9203.

The Board found no competent evidence of a relationship between the veteran's current psychiatric disability and his service-connected bilateral tibial periostitis. The veteran's right and left tibial periostitis were also not rated as compensable.

The Board found that new and material evidence had been presented to reopen the claim for service connection for schizophrenia, but concluded that schizophrenia was not incurred in service or within one year of service.