The Board has determined that the decedent's frontotemporal dementia is as likely as not related to a head injury he sustained in service, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a link between the decedent's 1995 head injury during service and his current diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia.
- Claimed conditions
- frontotemporal dementia
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 1, 2014
- Citation
- 1452781
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What this means for you
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