The Board denied the Veteran's claims for a higher rating for psychological disabilities and cervicogenic headache disability, and remanded the claim for service connection for coughing/congestion disability.
The deciding factor: The severity of the Veteran's psychological disabilities did not more closely approximate symptoms productive of total occupational and social impairment. The severity of his headache disability did not more closely approximate very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Claimed conditions
- other specified trauma and stressor related disorder, insomnia disorder, chronic, traumatic brain injury (also claimed as black outs, loss of consciousness, sleep disorder), cervicogenic headache disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25093060
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