The Veteran's frontal lobe dementia is due to his service-connected other specified bipolar and related disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder. The Veteran's cerebrovascular accident is not secondary to his service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The Board found the evidence persuasive in favor of a link between the Veteran's dementia and his service-connected PTSD and bipolar disorder, but did not find such a link for the cerebrovascular accident.
- Claimed conditions
- frontal lobe dementia, cerebrovascular accident
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 2, 2024
- Citation
- A24062926
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 134 · Granted: 38% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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