The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining additional medical records and considering service connection claims for hearing loss, balance issues, and cerebellar atrophy with ataxia as residuals of a head injury. The increased rating claim will be reconsidered under Diagnostic Code 8045.
The deciding factor: The Board has determined that the current rating assigned does not fully account for all relevant factors and must be reconsidered in light of additional evidence and considerations.
- Claimed conditions
- organic brain syndrome, neurotic reaction as residuals of a head injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 1, 2006
- Citation
- 0612536
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for increased disability ratings and TDIU due to incomplete records being considered in the determination of his degree of disability.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not preclude him from obtaining and maintaining gainful employment given his background, education, and previous work experience.
- Denied
The Veteran's appeal to reopen a claim of service connection for a psychiatric disability, including schizophrenia, manic depression and organic brain syndrome is denied. Service connection for Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)/Attention Defect Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is also denied.
- Granted
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and SMC at the housebound rate are granted. The initial rating of 100 percent for organic brain syndrome, initial compensable rating for headaches, and SMC based on housebound status are all granted as of June 26, 1969. The issues regarding loss of skull and head scar remain unresolved.
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