Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2025

The Board denied service connection for avascular necrosis of the bilateral shoulders and hips, an acquired psychiatric disorder, and neurological impairments of various extremities as they were not causally related to the Veteran's in-service exposure to herbicide agents.

The Board remands the case for additional development to obtain private medical records from a closed facility for treatment rendered in 1975.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and sleep apnea to correct duty-to-assist errors, including failing to provide VA examinations.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for allergic rhinitis, sinus headaches, left upper extremity hypoesthesia, an acquired psychiatric disorder, and a left knee disability due to errors in the development of the record.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include posttraumatic stress disorder, and denied an initial compensable rating for allergic rhinitis.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for headaches, coughing disorder, and acquired psychiatric disorder due to insufficient medical evidence.

The Board denied service connection for restless leg syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), allergic rhinitis, and a psychiatric disability, to include generalized anxiety disorder with depressive disorder. The Board granted an initial compensable rating for restrictive lung disease, fibrosis.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various disabilities, including a neck disability, shoulder disabilities, hand disabilities, lower back disability, knee disabilities, psychiatric disorder, sinus headache, carpal tunnel syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, hypertension, and tinnitus, to ensure that VA has satisfied its duty to assist with regard to verifying all periods of service and obtaining medical records associated with the Veteran's service.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric condition including persistent depressive disorder, with periodic major depressive episodes and PTSD, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The Board dismissed the appeal as an impermissible election of concurrent and duplicative review.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for pain disorder and acquired psychiatric disability due to a failure to provide VA examinations.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability other than PTSD, to include generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder, and a skin disability, to include acne, dermatosis, seborrheic dermatitis, and a follicular cyst.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss due to a lack of evidence showing the Veteran has a current hearing loss disability as defined by VA regulations. The claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder was remanded for further development.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, left and right knee disorders due to the lack of a current disability. The claims for an acquired psychiatric disorder, right elbow, and right shoulder were remanded for further development.

The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for a psychiatric disability, finding that the Veteran's service-connected condition did not result in occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas during the period of appeal.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder was granted, while claims for chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and other conditions were denied. The rating assigned for irritable bowel syndrome is 30 percent.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and remanded the claims for an acquired psychiatric disorder and TDIU.

The Board remands the issues of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and whether the character of the Appellant's discharge from service constitutes a bar to VA monetary benefits due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board denied service connection for a menstrual disorder but granted service connection for PTSD.

The appeal pertaining to the claim for service connection for right sciatic nerve radiculopathy is dismissed, and initial ratings for bilateral hearing loss and bronchial asthma are denied. The remaining claims are remanded.