The Board has granted a 100 percent disability evaluation for the veteran's residuals, head trauma with skull fracture and hydrocephalus with cerebral atrophy with resultant mixed organic brain syndrome secondary to trauma.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed severe deficits in new learning, memory, judgment, and problem solving due to the veteran's traumatic brain injury.
- Claimed conditions
- head trauma, skull fracture, hydrocephalus, cerebral atrophy, mixed organic brain syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 26, 2004
- Citation
- 0402512
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,480 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew her appeal regarding head trauma, and the Board dismissed it.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for head trauma as there is no persuasive evidence showing the Veteran incurred a head injury or had a diagnosis of head trauma during his active service.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for hydrocephalus, finding that there is no evidence to support a link between his current condition and his active-duty service.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection of a skull fracture is dismissed. The appeal for service connection of bilateral hearing loss is remanded.
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