The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed acquired psychiatric disorder, including schizophrenia, was not incurred in or aggravated by service and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not show a pre-existing psychiatric disorder at entry into service and no subsequent diagnosis of an acquired psychiatric disorder during service or within one year post-service. The Board found that the veteran's claims were based on direct service connection rather than any other theory such as secondary, aggravation, or presumptive.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder to include schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 23, 2005
- Citation
- 0526313
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