The appeal seeking to reopen a claim of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including schizophrenia, is granted. Service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including schizophrenia, is also granted.
The deciding factor: New evidence was submitted that relates the current diagnosis of schizophrenia to the Veteran's service and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder (including schizophrenia)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2019
- Citation
- 19100145
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Decisions by this judge: 1,506 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including schizophrenia, finding that the Veteran's early prodromal symptoms manifested within one year of separation from active service. The TDIU claim is remanded.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection of an acquired psychiatric disorder and initial rating for hypothyroidism, status-post Graves' disease have been denied. The Veteran's claim for TDIU has also been denied.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including schizophrenia, as new and material evidence was not received to reopen the claim.
- Granted
The Veteran's claims for service connection have been reopened, and the Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder (including schizophrenia), a back condition, and a respiratory condition to include COPD. The claim for PTSD remains denied due to lack of evidence of an in-service stressor. Service connection for hepatitis C was not addressed as it is unrelated to the other claims.
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