The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a current disability as a result of an organic brain disorder related to a disease or injury incurred during active service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not support a finding of a brain injury during service and there was no treatment for symptoms of a brain injury for approximately forty years following service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of brain trauma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 16, 2004
- Citation
- 0409974
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