Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2005

The Board has reopened the claim and determined that the veteran's current diagnosis of schizophrenia is related to his military service, granting service connection for a psychiatric disorder.

The Board has determined that the veteran's current schizophrenia is related to his service, and thus grants service connection for a psychiatric disorder.

The Board has remanded the case due to failure to notify the veteran of a scheduled VA examination, and for further development including scheduling another examination.

The veteran withdrew his appeal regarding the claim of service connection for paranoid schizophrenia, and as a result, the Board has dismissed this case.

The Board found that the veteran's pre-existing psychiatric disorder (schizophrenia) was not aggravated by service, and thus denied his claim for service connection.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, finding no evidence of an in-service injury or disease that led to his current condition.

The Board has vacated the July 1998 decision and remanded the case for further development, including obtaining additional medical records to support the veteran's claim of CUE.

The Board found no evidence of chronic conditions such as neck injury, psychiatric disorder, or concussion during service. The veteran's current claims for these conditions are denied.

The Board has determined that additional development is necessary before the claims can be fully adjudicated, including obtaining service personnel records and verifying stressors for PTSD, as well as arranging for VA examinations to assess the veteran's psychiatric disability and bilateral knee disabilities.

The Board has granted an effective date of March 31, 1997 for the award of Total Disability Rating due to Individual Unemployability (TDIU) based on evidence showing the veteran became unable to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment prior to that date.

The Board has remanded the case to the RO for scheduling a Travel Board hearing and further development.

The Board has denied reopening the claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder. The case is being remanded to obtain additional VA treatment records and Social Security Administration records.

The veteran's claim for service connection and compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 for bilateral visual loss due to optic atrophy was granted effective November 14, 1998.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for PTSD and a skin disorder, finding that there was no evidence of an acquired psychiatric disorder or PTSD during his active duty service.

The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for TDIU was denied as the earliest possible effective date is June 9, 1997 when he filed his application. The Board found that prior to this date, there was no evidence showing that his service-connected disabilities alone precluded him from following a substantially gainful occupation.

The veteran is granted service connection for schizophrenia and erectile dysfunction with effective dates of December 2, 1994 and January 2, 2002 respectively. The earlier effective date of February 1974 for the erectile dysfunction claim is not supported as a matter of law.

The Board denied the veteran's claim to reopen his service connection for paranoid schizophrenia with passive aggressive personality due to lack of new and material evidence.

The Board denied the appellant's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for the cause of her husband's death, finding that no evidence was received prior to March 16, 2000, and thus denying any award before this date.

The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder in June 1986. The veteran's claim was reopened based on new evidence, but the Board found that his current psychiatric condition is not related to his military service or his service-connected residuals of seventh nerve right paralysis (Bell's palsy).

The Board has determined that the veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected condition, and thus denied service connection for the cause of his death.