The Board has determined that the Veteran incurred a traumatic brain injury with concentration and attention difficulties during active service, but found no evidence to support seizure activity, fainting, or syncope. Service connection for these conditions is granted for the former, but denied for the latter.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established for a mild traumatic brain injury with concentration and attention difficulties due to credible lay testimony and medical examination findings. Seizure activity, fainting, and syncope were dissociated from the in-service head injury by medical evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- traumatic brain injury with concentration and attention difficulties, seizure activity, fainting, syncope
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 7, 2011
- Citation
- 1133040
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