The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disability, including personality disorder and other acquired psychiatric disorders, finding that no new and material evidence had been submitted to reopen the claim.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not provide medical opinion linking any current psychiatric disorder to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Personality Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder, Paranoid Schizophrenia, Major Depression with Psychotic Features
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 14, 2001
- Citation
- 0107570
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Partly granted
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