The Board has granted service connection for the veteran's cyclic short term memory loss with hypoperfusion in the left frontal temporal lobe, finding it to be due to an undiagnosed illness related to his Persian Gulf service.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports a grant of service connection for cyclic short term memory loss with hypoperfusion in the left frontal temporal lobe as a manifestation of an undiagnosed illness related to the veteran's Persian Gulf service.
- Claimed conditions
- cyclic short term memory loss with hypoperfusion in the left frontal temporal lobe
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 7, 2005
- Citation
- 0500501
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