The veteran's service-connected OBS is manifested by subjective complaints of chronic sleep difficulty, mild depressive periods, frustration due to physical problems, and some cognitive slowing down secondary to OBS, that appeared to cause little impairment on his level of functioning, without clinical findings of panic attacks, impaired memory and judgment, and difficulty establishing and maintaining work and social relationships, essentially reflective of no more than occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks (although generally functioning satisfactorily, with routine behavior, self-care and conversation normal).
The deciding factor: The schedular criteria for a rating in excess of 30 percent for OBS have not been met.
- Claimed conditions
- Organic brain syndrome (OBS)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2008
- Citation
- 0810040
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