The Board has granted service connection for a mixed schizoaffective disorder and an increased rating for residuals of head trauma, with the latter effective from October 1990.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports the diagnosis of a mixed schizoaffective disorder that is as likely as not having first emerged during military service. The appellant's history of psychiatric issues in service, including interpersonal problems and substance abuse, along with his current symptoms, support this conclusion. For the increased rating claim, the Board found that the residuals of head trauma warranted a 10% disability rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Mixed Schizoaffective Disorder, Residuals of Head Trauma (including incomplete partial paralysis of the fifth cranial nerve)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 28, 2002
- Citation
- 0205279
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