The Board found that the Veteran's complaint of short-term memory loss does not meet the criteria for service connection under presumptive provisions due to lack of objective indicators of a chronic undiagnosed illness.
The deciding factor: There are no objective indications of a chronic undiagnosed illness involving short-term memory loss in the record, as neither signs nor other non-medical indicators have been shown.
- Claimed conditions
- short-term memory loss
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 16, 2010
- Citation
- 1022373
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