Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2025

The Board remands the matter of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder due to a need for additional medical opinion.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for headaches/migraines, an acquired psychiatric disorder, and sleep apnea due to a lack of evidence showing current disabilities.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for temporomandibular joint disorder, low back condition, right lower extremity radiculopathy, acquired psychiatric disorder, and bilateral hearing loss to obtain additional evidence.

The Board denied an initial evaluation higher than 50 percent for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating.

The Board granted a rating of 70 percent for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, but no higher, from June 19, 2021. The earlier effective date claim was dismissed.

The Board granted service connection for a heart disability, CVA, and acquired psychiatric disability as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected conditions but denied increased ratings for hypertension, migraine headaches, status post anal fistulotomy, decreased visual acuity with diplopia associated with Graves' disease, and Graves' disease.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for paranoid schizophrenia to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error, specifically regarding an adequate medical opinion on the etiology of the condition.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and hypertension, as well as a TDIU claim, due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The appeal for service connection for a back disability, peripheral neuropathy, and an acquired psychiatric disorder is dismissed.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as specific phobia, situation type (enclosed places, flying), and remanded the claim for diabetes mellitus. The other claims were denied.

The Board denied service connection for multiple conditions, including TBI, psychiatric disabilities, cervical and lumbar spine issues, knee strains, shoulder and wrist conditions, and a ventral hernia. The Veteran's claims were not supported by evidence of in-service incurrence or aggravation and the current presence of related disabilities.

The Veteran's service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is granted, while the claims for a neck disorder and obstructive sleep apnea are denied.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability but denied increased ratings for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, a headache disability, and hypertension. The claim for vertigo was remanded.

The Board granted service connection for paranoid schizophrenia and remanded the claims for PTSD, chronic acquired psychiatric disorder, bilateral hearing loss, and low back disability.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding that the Veteran's condition began during his active-duty service.

The Board granted readjudication of the claims for service connection for psychiatric disability, lumbosacral spine disability, gastrointestinal disability, bilateral wrist disability, and bilateral eye conditions based on new evidence being presented.

The Board denied readjudication of the right shoulder disability claim, granted readjudication of the acquired psychiatric disorder claim, and denied earlier effective dates for back, knee, and radiculopathy claims as well as increased ratings for various disabilities.

The Board granted an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for right knee meniscus tear and denied service connection for a left knee condition, granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, and granted an increased rating of 30 percent for right knee meniscus tear from July 14, 2022.

The Board denied service connection for all the claimed conditions as there was no evidence to support a causal relationship between any of these disabilities and the Veteran's active duty service.

The Board denied an initial rating greater than 10 percent for left Achilles tendonitis based on limitation of motion from May 20, 2013 to April 19, 2018 and an initial rating greater than 20 percent for a left ankle condition based on limitation of motion from April 20, 2018 onward. However, the Board granted a separate initial disability rating of 20 percent for left ankle instability and denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric condition.