title: Direct service connection (post-traumatic stress disorder).  Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).  Final rule.
abstract: This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication regulations concerning the type of evidence required to establish service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  This amendment implements a decision by the United States Court of Veterans Appeals (the Court) which stated that current regulations do not adequately reflect the governing statute.
mesh_terms: D004608:Eligibility Determination; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs; D014728:Veterans; D014857:Warfare