The Board has determined that the veteran's schizophrenia, a psychiatric disability, was incurred during active service and granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided by VA physicians indicated that symptoms displayed by the veteran during service could have been prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia. Given these findings, it was as likely as not that the initial onset of the disability occurred during active service.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2000
- Citation
- 0001308
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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