Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, as the March 2024 VA examination and opinion are incomplete and inconsistent with other contemporaneous evidence of record.
The deciding factor: The March 2024 VA examiner's failure to consider relevant evidence and address the full range of psychiatric diagnoses renders both the examination and opinion inadequate.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified mood disorder, bipolar disorder, unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25090913
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