The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a traumatic brain injury, finding that there is no current diagnosis and noting conflicting reports about the nature and cause of his head injury.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support a current diagnosis of residuals of a traumatic brain injury, with conflicting descriptions of the incident and lack of clinical findings supporting such a condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of Traumatic Brain Injury, Aneurysm causing seizures and stroke with memory loss and impaired thoughts
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2021
- Citation
- 21003363
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- Granted
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