The Board finds that the appellant's psychotic disorder may be presumed to have been incurred during service due to its initial manifestation within the one-year presumptive period after discharge.
The deciding factor: The VHA medical opinion concluded that it is at least as likely as not that the appellant had significant prodromal symptoms of schizoaffective disorder within a year of his discharge from the Marines, which would be seen as a prodrome or early manifestation of this disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- psychotic disorder
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 19, 2003
- Citation
- 0313300
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