The Board denied the veteran's appeal to reopen his claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, finding that there was no new and material evidence submitted.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence has been submitted to establish a nexus between current acquired psychiatric disability and service.
- Claimed conditions
- Personality Disorder, Pedophilia, Anxiety Reaction, Personality Disorder, not otherwise specified, Psychosis, Paranoid Schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 29, 2000
- Citation
- 0034026
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