The Board has granted service connection for a seizure disorder and a psychiatric disability, including anxiety disorders, panic disorder, and major depressive disorder. The Veteran's symptoms have been present since his military service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports the presence of current diagnoses of seizure disorder and psychiatric disabilities that are linked to the Veteran's military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Seizure Disorder, Psychiatric Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 27, 2010
- Citation
- 1036380
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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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