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
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What this means for you
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