The Board has granted service connection for a schizoaffective disorder, depressive type. Service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome is denied as the veteran does not meet the diagnostic criteria and there is no evidence of an undiagnosed illness due to service in the Southwest Asia theater during the Persian Gulf War.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the veteran's current psychiatric symptomatology, including his schizoaffective disorder, was related to military service. However, chronic fatigue syndrome did not meet diagnostic criteria and there is no evidence of an undiagnosed illness due to service in the Southwest Asia theater during the Persian Gulf War.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Schizoaffective Disorder, Depressive Type
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2006
- Citation
- 0638519
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