The Board has granted service connection for impairment of the frontal lobe of the brain, finding it related to a head injury in service. Service connection for a spinal cord disability was denied as there is no evidence of such a condition.
The deciding factor: There is no diagnosis or evidence of a spinal cord disability in the record.
- Claimed conditions
- Impairment of the frontal lobe of the brain, Spinal cord disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 4, 2005
- Citation
- 0509736
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