The Veteran's claims for service connection are being remanded due to the need for additional development, including obtaining medical records and conducting a VA examination.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to properly develop the Veteran's claims, particularly regarding his claimed psychiatric disorders and their onset during service or within one year of discharge.
- Claimed conditions
- acquired psychiatric disorder, including dissociative amnesia, depression and anxiety disorder, visual problems, non-epileptic seizures
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 18, 2018
- Citation
- 1803229
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for dissociative amnesia, conversion disorder, non-epileptic seizures, and PTSD due to a lack of a Statement of the Case (SOC).
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the Veteran's service connection claims for non-epileptic seizures and brain disease, both linked to in-service exposure to Camp LeJeune water contamination, need further investigation. The case is sent back to VA for a thorough examination and opinion.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for visual problems and non-epileptic seizures, finding that these conditions are related to the Veteran's active service or his service-connected major depressive disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for visual problems, an increased rating for duodenal ulcer, and an increased rating for generalized anxiety disorder. The evidence did not support a finding of chronic or continuous disabilities that were related to service.
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