The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a psychiatric disability, including post traumatic stress disorder and depressive disorder with psychotic features, as well as for disc disease of the lumbosacral spine. The reasons are not provided in this text.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not meet the criteria for direct service connection due to lack of clear medical nexus between current disabilities and military service.
- Claimed conditions
- post traumatic stress disorder, depressive disorder with psychotic features, undiagnosed illness characterized by headaches, sleepiness, poor memory and concentration, and sexual dysfunction, disc disease of the lumbosacral spine, undiagnosed illness characterized by low back pain with numbness and weakness of the legs
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 17, 2003
- Citation
- 0331740
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