The Board has granted service connection for memory loss due to an undiagnosed illness, but denied service connection for hair loss as it is hereditary.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise regarding the cause of the veteran's memory loss and does not clearly attribute it to intercurrent causes or known clinical diagnoses.
- Claimed conditions
- Hair Loss, Memory Loss
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2005
- Citation
- 0502710
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