The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include alcohol use disorder, mood disorder, and anxiety disorder secondary to traumatic brain injury (TBI), but denied service connection for right ear hearing loss, a left eye condition, cervical spine degenerative arthritis, spondylosis, and bilateral wrist tendonitis.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability was at least as likely as not caused or aggravated by his service-connected traumatic brain injury (TBI), but there was no evidence of a current right ear hearing loss disability, left eye condition, cervical spine degenerative arthritis, spondylosis, or bilateral wrist tendonitis that met the criteria for service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- right ear hearing loss, left eye condition (dry eye syndrome), acquired psychiatric disability, to include alcohol use disorder, mood disorder, and anxiety disorder secondary to traumatic brain injury (TBI), cervical spine degenerative arthritis, spondylosis, right wrist tendonitis with numbness in thumbs, wrist, and third and fourth fingers, left wrist tendonitis with numbness in thumbs, wrist, and third and fourth fingers
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 15, 2025
- Citation
- 25006679
What this means for you
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