Acquired psychiatric disorder Board decisions

The Board has remanded the case due to the need for a VA examination and additional development of records, including treatment from Osawatomie State Hospital.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for various conditions, including cancer of the neck glands, peripheral neuropathy, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), hypertension, and an innocently acquired psychiatric disorder. The decision found that these conditions were not due to disease or injury incurred in service, nor could they be presumed to have been incurred therein.

The veteran's service-connected paranoid schizophrenia prevented him from effectively communicating his symptoms of gastric carcinoma, contributing to his early demise. The Board finds that the veteran's service-connected condition materially contributed to his death and grants dependency and indemnity compensation benefits.

The Board has granted the veteran's claim to reopen his service connection for schizophrenia, finding that new and material evidence supports a current diagnosis of schizophrenia and in-service manifestations. The Board also found an approximate balance of positive and negative medical opinion evidence linking the initial symptoms of schizophrenia to service in 1973.

The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for chronic, undifferentiated type schizophrenia and G6PD deficiency (claimed as anemia), malaria, and a renal condition secondary to G6PD deficiency.

The Board has decided to remand the case for additional development, including obtaining service medical records and arranging for a VA examination.

The Board has remanded the case for additional development including obtaining medical records and verifying service stressors. The veteran's claim for PTSD will be reconsidered based on the new evidence.

The Board has remanded the case for further development to address whether the veteran's current psychiatric disability, including depression, is caused by his service-connected duodenal ulcer disease.

The veteran's organic mental disorder is currently rated as 10% disabling, but the evidence does not support a higher rating.,The RO corrected an administrative error in assigning a 10% rating for skull fracture residuals and reduced it to 0%. The effective date of this reduction was December 1, 2003.

The veteran's service-connected hemorrhoids are granted a rating of 20 percent, the maximum schedular evaluation. The claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder is remanded to determine its etiology and relationship to his service-connected disabilities.

The Board found that the veteran's current psychiatric disorder was not incurred in or aggravated by active service and denied his claim for service connection.

The veteran's schizophrenia is rated at 70 percent, the highest available rating for this condition.

The Board denied the appellant's claim for an extension of her delimiting date for receipt of educational benefits under Chapter 35, as she did not meet the eligibility requirements and there was no legal basis to extend the delimiting period.

The Board has granted the appellant's claim of entitlement to enhanced DIC benefits under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1311(a)(2) based on her spouse's service-connected disability.

The Board has granted an effective date of April 11, 1980 for the award of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder (PTSD and schizophrenia), based on a liberalizing law that added PTSD to the rating criteria. The veteran met the criteria for PTSD as of this date.

The veteran's psychiatric disorder is service-connected as it was aggravated by his military service. His lumbar myositis, right leg radiculopathy, and right leg neuropathy are all rated at 10 percent each.

The Board has remanded the case for further development due to a need for an examination and opinion regarding whether any current psychiatric disability may be related to service.

The VA denied the veteran's claim for service connection due to a lack of medical nexus between his diagnosed psychiatric disorder and his military service.

The Board has remanded the case for further development, including verification of stressor events and a psychiatric examination to determine if the veteran's current psychiatric disorder is related to his military service.

The veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder has been reopened due to the submission of new and material evidence. Service connection for diabetes mellitus is not established.