Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for further development, including obtaining an enlistment examination and scheduling a VA examination to determine the nature and etiology of any psychiatric disorders other than PTSD.

The Board granted a 40 percent rating for TMD and denied a compensable rating for tension headaches, while granting service connection for respiratory disorder, tinnitus, left ear hearing loss, and right ear hearing loss (denied), among other conditions.

The Board denied service connection for a lung condition and heart condition, but remanded claims for sinus conditions, headaches, kidney conditions, liver conditions, sleep apnea, and an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The appeal is dismissed due to the Veteran's death.

The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disability, diagnosed as a nightmare disorder, based on new and relevant evidence.

The Board denied service connection for a recurrent sleep disability to include sleep apnea, a psychiatric disability to include a depressive disorder and an anxiety disorder, and tinnitus as the evidence did not support a causal relationship between these conditions and the Veteran's active service.

The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus and an acquired psychiatric disorder, both directly and as secondary to other conditions.

The Board granted an initial 40 percent rating for narcolepsy prior to August 21, 2020, but denied a higher rating from that date. The appeal of the claim for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for residual left heel laceration and the claim for service connection for eczema were withdrawn.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD and anxiety, and assigned a 30 percent rating for asthma (previously rated as COPD) effective March 31, 2022. Service connection was denied for degenerative arthritis and higher ratings were denied for episodic sinusitis.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for vertigo and an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, anxiety and insomnia, due to a failure by the AOJ to provide notice of the Veteran's right to a pre-decisional hearing.

The Board granted service connection for allergic rhinitis and remanded the claims for service connection for an upper back scar, an acquired psychiatric disorder, a skin condition, fatigue, hypertension, and entitlement to TDIU.

The appeal was dismissed due to the death of the Appellant.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for a rating greater than 70 percent for an acquired psychiatric disability and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability prior to August 29, 2018.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, loss of use of bodily organs, hair loss, hearing loss, and other conditions. Some claims were remanded for further development.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder to obtain a new VA examination and opinion.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, due to incomplete evidence and a need for additional VA examination.

The Board denied service connection for asthma, a sexually transmitted disease (STD), an acquired psychiatric disorder, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) as there was no evidence of current diagnoses or in-service incurrence.

The Board remands the claims for service connection to the agency of original jurisdiction (AOJ) for a correction of an error by the AOJ in satisfying a regulatory duty.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of January 23, 2012, for the award of service connection for a psychiatric disability.

The Board remands the claims for readjudication based on new and relevant evidence received since previous denials.