The Board denied the veteran's claims for an increased disability rating for her service-connected schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability. The evidence showed that her condition had resolved with essentially no pertinent pathology.
The deciding factor: The medical records demonstrated that the veteran's psychotic illness had fully resolved, leading to normal mental status findings at the October 1998 VA mental disorders evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- Schizophrenia, Paranoid Type
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- September 8, 2000
- Citation
- 0023855
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