The Board has granted an increased disability rating of 30 percent for the veteran's residuals of a head injury to include dementia and ice pick headaches, effective from August 29, 1997.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations indicated that the veteran's current psychiatric symptomatology is primarily manifested by limited short-term and long-term memory, poor visual memory, mildly impaired attentional ability, mildly impaired visuospatial skills, an intellectual ability in the low average range, moderate to severe depression, and moderate vocational difficulty.
- Claimed conditions
- Dementia, Ice pick headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- May 31, 2000
- Citation
- 0014167
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