The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of service connection for a mental disorder and found that new and material evidence was submitted. However, upon review of the reopened claim, the preponderance of the evidence is against the grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not sustain a head trauma in service as he claimed, and there is no medical evidence linking his current psychiatric disorder to service or any other relevant factor.
- Claimed conditions
- Mental Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 29, 2006
- Citation
- 0640267
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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