The Board found that the Veteran does not have a current diagnosed condition of memory loss or cognitive impairment, and thus denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examination did not find any evidence of a current mental disorder diagnosis that met the DSM criteria for memory loss or cognitive impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- Memory Loss, Insomnia Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 22, 2017
- Citation
- 1741708
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