The veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include as secondary to a service-connected seizure disorder, is being remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: Insufficient evidence exists to determine the etiology of any diagnosed psychiatric disorders; an examination is necessary to address whether these conditions are related to service or secondary to the veteran's service-connected seizure disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- psychiatric disorder, to include depression and anxiety
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 27, 2008
- Citation
- 0810130
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Decisions by this judge: 2,084 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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
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