The Board has determined that the Veteran's current conversion disorder is proximately due to his service-connected PTSD, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: A VA medical expert concluded that there was a greater than 50% probability of the Veteran having a conversion disorder diagnosis rather than malingering. The VHA examiner also stated that it was only reasonable to expect that anxiety and emotional discomfort caused by PTSD would worsen his conversion disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- Seizure Disorder, Residuals of Head Trauma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2014
- Citation
- 1403521
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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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