Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for right and left knee instability before June 12, 2023, and an evaluation of 40 percent for degenerative arthritis of the lumbar spine. The claim for a higher rating for posttraumatic stress disorder with major depressive disorder was denied.

The Board denied service connection for erectile dysfunction with hypogonadism, hypertension, and tinnitus due to insufficient evidence of current disability or functional impairment. The claims for these conditions were remanded for further development.

The Board granted the restoration of a 50 percent rating for bilateral hearing loss and service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder to include insomnia as secondary to tinnitus.

The appeal of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, is dismissed as the benefit has been granted in full.

The Board denied service connection for all the claimed conditions as there was no evidence of a current disability or that any of the claimed disabilities were related to active military service.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for right knee disability, left knee disability, acquired psychiatric disorder, seizure disability, headaches, and lumbar spine disability as secondary to seizure disability due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board granted an initial disability rating of 50 percent for the psychiatric disorder, but no higher.

The appeal for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability was dismissed as the claim was granted in full by a December 2024 rating decision.

The Board granted a 100 percent disability rating for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, dismissed the TDIU claim as moot, and granted an effective date of January 29, 2015, but no earlier, for the grant of Dependents' Educational Assistance.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective date and service connection for various conditions, finding no evidence to support a relationship between these conditions and her military service.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, finding that the Veteran's tinnitus onset during service. The claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder was remanded for further development.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding the evidence to be in equipoise regarding its relation to the Veteran's military service.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for cause of death to obtain additional medical opinions regarding an acquired psychiatric disorder and TBI residuals.

The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 10 percent for tinnitus and remanded the claims for service connection for breathing problems, back disability, acquired psychiatric disorder, and penile condition.

The Veteran was granted a temporary initial disability rating of 100 percent for stroke, and the appeal pertaining to the reduction in rating for the deviated nasal septum was dismissed as moot. The claim for an increased rating for the deviated nasal septum was denied.

The Board denied service connection for a pulmonary condition, to include asthma and COPD, as well as an acquired psychiatric disorder, due to the lack of evidence linking these conditions to the Veteran's active duty service.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including depression and anxiety, and arthritis lumbar spine muscle strain as the evidence did not support a causal relationship between these conditions and the Veteran's military service.

The Board remands the appeal to request additional service treatment records and private treatment records, then readjudicate the claim.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disability to obtain additional medical opinions that address whether the Veteran's service-connected disabilities caused or aggravated his major depressive disorder with anxious distress.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, as there was no current disability of PTSD and the Veteran's symptoms did not meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD.