Acquired psychiatric disorder Board decisions

The Board has ordered a remand for the veteran's claim of service connection for a psychiatric disorder as secondary to his service-connected post-gastrectomy and gastrojejunostomy syndrome. The case is being returned to the AMC for further development, including obtaining an addendum from the board of two psychiatrists who conducted the February 2004 examination.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for gastrointestinal disorder, blurred vision, and neuropsychiatric disorder with insomnia. The Board found no evidence of a chronic disability in service or due to an undiagnosed illness.

The Board has determined that the veteran's schizophrenia, an acquired psychiatric disorder, was incurred during active service and grants entitlement to service connection for this condition.

The Board has granted service connection for schizophrenia and assigned a 100% rating effective from March 24, 2000. However, the earlier effective date of September 9, 1994 is denied due to lack of evidence supporting such claim.

The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection for somatoform pain disorder and a chronic acquired psychiatric disorder, finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted. The RO confirmed this decision.

The Board has determined that the veteran's current psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as depression, had its onset during his period of active service. The hearing loss disability claim is considered to be without a clear basis in service records and thus remains unresolved.

The Board has ordered a VA examination to determine if the veteran has any psychiatric disability, including PTSD, that is related to service. The case will be remanded for further development and consideration.

The Board has vacated its August 2004 decision and will be entering a new decision on the issue of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder to include depression or other nervous disorder, as it did not provide full due process by failing to consider all VA medical records in constructive possession.

The Board has determined that the veteran's current schizophrenia is service-connected, as it likely began during his military service.

The veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining medical records and arranging for a VA psychiatric examination.

The Board has ordered the case to be remanded for additional development, including obtaining Social Security Administration records and treatment records from a military hospital in Germany.

The Board found that the veteran's schizophrenia first manifested during service and granted service connection.

The veteran's claims for increased rating and total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities were denied because he failed to report for scheduled VA examinations without good cause.

The Board has granted service connection for schizophrenia and assigned a 100% disability rating, effective from May 2, 2002. The appeal is not about service connection at all.

The Board found that new and material evidence had not been received to reopen the veteran's claim of service connection for a psychiatric disorder, resulting in a denial.

The Board found no evidence of a current psychiatric disorder related to military service and denied the claim for service connection. For bilateral hearing loss, while there was noise exposure during service, the Board determined that the current disability is not linked to in-service acoustic trauma.

The veteran's claims for service connection for various conditions, including bilateral hearing loss, chloracne, prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, an acquired psychiatric disorder (including anxiety), sinusitis, cervical spine myositis, and lumbar spine myositis were denied as there is no evidence of current disability or in-service exposure to herbicide agents.

The Board denied service connection for otitis as there is no current evidence of the condition. Service connection for residuals of a December 1988 motor vehicle accident including paralysis, brain injury, hip injury, and a psychiatric disorder was also denied due to lack of competent evidence linking these conditions to service.

The Board found that the veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, was not incurred as a result of any incident of active service.

The Board has determined that the veteran's claim for an increased rating for residuals of a fracture of the left elbow from 40 percent and his claims to reopen service connection for psychiatric disability and proteinuria residuals must be remanded due to incomplete development.