The Board has granted service connection for a generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks and chronic dysthymic disorder, but denied service connection for shaking hands.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support the claim of a current disability manifested by shaking hands that is related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Panic Attacks, Chronic Dysthymic Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 11, 2003
- Citation
- 0307065
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Decisions by this judge: 1,325 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks was granted, effective April 4, 1985. The VA assigned a 50% rating from October 3, 2023, and denied TDIU.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected generalized anxiety disorder is granted an increased disability rating of 100 percent, effective December 3, 2020. The appeal for a TDIU rating is dismissed as moot.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's service-connected anxiety disorder does not prevent him from securing and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Panic Attacks and Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder, as well as his request for a total disability rating due to individual unemployability, were granted effective July 23, 2019.
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