The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for major depressive disorder with memory loss and chronic acquired eye disorder, finding that these conditions were not incurred or aggravated by his military service.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations did not find a current psychiatric disability related to service-connected post-traumatic headaches. The examiner also found no evidence of brain injury from the December 1970 MVA, and concluded that the veteran's depressive disorder was likely unrelated to his service-connected head injury. For the eye condition, while presbyopia and myopia are developmental disorders not subject to service connection under VA regulations, astigmatism may be due to trauma.
- Claimed conditions
- Major depressive disorder with memory loss, Chronic acquired eye disorder (presumably astigmatism)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2003
- Citation
- 0327644
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