Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2006

The veteran's schizophrenia is currently rated at 70 percent, effective from April 27, 2004.

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

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for PTSD and an acquired psychiatric disorder other than PTSD, finding no evidence to support these claims. The claim for reopening a bilateral knee disability was also denied as new and material evidence had not been received.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and alcoholism as secondary to the same condition, finding no causal link between these conditions and active duty.

The Board has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a seizure disorder (claimed as head injury) due to lack of evidence of current disability. The issue of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including post-traumatic stress disorder and/or depression, remains pending.

The Board has decided that additional development is needed for the appellant's claim of service connection for a psychiatric disorder, including PTSD. The case will be remanded to allow further examination and review.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a bilateral elbow condition and residuals of head injury to include paranoid schizophrenia. The claims for increased evaluations for left knee conditions were also denied.

The Board has denied reopening the veteran's claim for service connection for schizophrenia and has remanded the case to allow the veteran to provide additional evidence.

The Board denied the reopening of the claim for service connection for a mental disorder due to lack of new and material evidence.

The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a current low back disorder, bilateral knee disorder, PUD with chronic hematochezia, psychiatric disorder, or hearing loss that is related to service. The tinnitus was also denied as it did not manifest during service.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for psychiatric disability and nerve damage, finding that new and material evidence had not been received to reopen the claims.

The Board has determined that the effective date for a grant of service connection for schizophrenia should be January 2, 1990.

The Board has remanded the case due to deficiencies in VCAA notice and further development is required.

The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining hospital records from Brooke Army Medical Center. The veteran's claim of service connection for a psychiatric disorder remains under review.

The Board has reopened the claim and granted service connection for a psychiatric disorder, finding that new evidence supports a link between the veteran's current condition and his active military service.

The VA denied the veteran's claim for an increased rating for his schizophrenia, undifferentiated type, as it did not meet the criteria for a higher disability evaluation.

The competent and probative medical evidence does not associate the veteran's chronic acquired psychiatric disability, identified as schizophrenia, with his active military service on any basis, nor does it establish that a psychosis was initially manifested during the first post-service year.

The Board found that the veteran does not have PTSD or an acquired psychiatric disorder present in service and related to her active duty service. Therefore, she is denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder.

The Board is remanding the case for additional development, including obtaining Social Security Administration records and considering new evidence submitted after a Supplemental Statement of the Case (SSOC).

The Board found no new and material evidence to reopen the claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, thus denying the appeal.