The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the claim of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, which is now considered. The Board also found that service connection should be granted for schizophrenia.
The deciding factor: The private medical records provided a retrospective view of the appellant's illness and linked his currently diagnosed schizophrenia to service by indicating that the adjustment disorder identified in service was probably the onset or initial manifestation of the appellant's schizophrenic illness.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired Psychiatric Disability (Schizophrenia)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 13, 2001
- Citation
- 0122380
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