The Board grants service connection for organic brain disease or dementia due to an in-service head injury, applying the doctrine of reasonable doubt.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in relative equipoise as to whether the veteran has a current diagnosis of dementia due to in-service head trauma. With application of the doctrine of reasonable doubt, service connection for dementia is warranted.
- Claimed conditions
- dementia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 6, 2009
- Citation
- 0900413
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for dementia, finding that it was aggravated by the Veteran's service-connected hearing loss disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for dementia, transient ischemic attacks (TIA), and stress, diagnosed as neurocognitive disorder, to secure adequate medical opinions addressing secondary service connection.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for dementia, finding no evidence linking the Veteran's dementia to his service-connected bilateral hearing loss.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for dementia to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors and obtain additional medical evidence.
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