The Board granted service connection for frontal lobe dementia as secondary to other specified bipolar and related disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, but denied service connection for a cerebrovascular accident.
The deciding factor: The August 2020 private medical opinion provided significant probative value in linking the Veteran's frontal lobe dementia to his service-connected conditions. However, there was no evidence supporting a link between the cerebrovascular accident and the service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- frontal lobe dementia, cerebrovascular accident
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 2, 2024
- Citation
- A24062926
What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
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