The Board has granted service connection for paranoid schizophrenia and denied service connection for a seizure disorder. The veteran's paranoid schizophrenia is presumed to have occurred in service, while the seizure disorder was not found during or after service.
The deciding factor: Service records show that the veteran had symptoms of paranoia prior to service and developed paranoid schizophrenia during service. No evidence supports a current diagnosis of a seizure disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid schizophrenia, seizure disorder
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 19, 2004
- Citation
- 0404681
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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.
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