Moray L. Ephraim, Claimant-Appellant v. Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

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• noting that a newly diagnosed psychiatric disorder (e.g., PTSD, even if medically related to a previously diagnosed disorder (such as depressive neurosis), is not the same for jurisdictional purposes when it has not previously been considered
• where a prior claim for service connection has been denied, and a current claim contains a different diagnosis (even one producing the same symptoms in the same anatomic system
• claims are inextricably intertwined when they have common parameters, such as when the outcome of one may affect the outcome of the other. And to avoid piecemeal adjudication of these types of claims, they should be considered together

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