Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2008

The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for PTSD based on new and material evidence, but remands this claim for further development. The other claims were denied.

The Board denied service connection for a left knee condition and a psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, as the evidence did not support that these conditions were related to the veteran's active military service or any service-connected disability.

The Board denied service connection for all the claimed conditions as there was no competent evidence of any currently diagnosed condition that is related to the veteran's active military service.

The Board found that new and material evidence had been submitted to reopen the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, but denied the claim on the merits. The claim for service connection for a heart disability was not reopened.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for memory loss, left knee pain (claimed as arthritis), numbness in the arms and legs, and neuropsychiatric disorder (claimed as anxiety and depression) due to a lack of evidence linking these conditions to his military service or an undiagnosed illness.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, a bilateral knee disorder, and determined that new and material evidence had not been received to reopen claims for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and a back disorder.

The appeal is remanded to the RO for a VA psychiatric examination.

The veteran's service connection claim for peripheral vascular disease of the right leg was denied, while a 20 percent rating was granted for his left tibia fracture with varus deformity and degenerative joint disease since October 25, 2002.

The Board granted service connection for PTSD but denied service connection for a psychiatric disability other than PTSD and a skin disability.

The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder (other than PTSD) as there is no evidence of such disability during service or within the applicable presumptive period, and no competent medical evidence linking any current psychiatric disorder to the veteran's military service.

The veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, currently characterized as bipolar disorder, was granted based on the evidence showing that his initial manifestation of the disorder occurred during service.

The claim for service connection for schizophrenia is reopened and remanded for further development.

The Board denied service connection for a low back disability, degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, to include as secondary to the service-connected left knee disability; and also denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder to include as secondary to the service-connected disabilities. The Board also found that there was no evidence of a respiratory or breathing disability, numbness in the arms and legs, headaches, anemia, or any other claimed conditions.

The Board remanded the case for a third time for a Board hearing and readjudication in light of new evidence.

The appeal is remanded for additional development, including obtaining SSA records and a VA psychiatric examination.

The appeal is remanded for additional development, including obtaining VA treatment records identified by the veteran.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a chronic acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, as there was no credible evidence that his claimed in-service stressor occurred and no medical evidence of a current diagnosis of PTSD.

The Board denied service connection for a dental disorder and a psychiatric disorder, finding no evidence that the appellant's current conditions were related to her periods of active duty or training.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for schizophrenia, an initial compensable rating for orchialgia secondary to bilateral hydrocele, a compensable rating for bilateral hydrocele, a 10 percent evaluation based on multiple noncompensable service-connected disabilities, and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.

The Board found that new and material evidence had been submitted to reopen the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD. The claim was then granted based on a current diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder being causally related to service.