Headache was also common (about 80%). These symptoms overlap with those of Meniereâs disease as well as to lesser extent, migraine (Sperling et al, 2001) Signs of a significant Chiari malformation often include downbeat nystagmus, poor visual pursuit for age, and alternating skew deviation. Occasionally patients will have sensorineural hearing loss Heuer et al., 2008). A few individuals with the Chiari malformation develop progressive neurological symptoms. These may include unsteadiness, vertigo, headache, weakness or numbness.
Eight of our early leaders (including Mt. Rushmore mainstays George Washington and Thomas Jefferson) owned slaves. Author Elizabeth Dowling Taylor writes for the Huffington Post: Here it is again, the intersection of Presidents Day and Black History Month.
As President, he authorized the Louisiana Purchase, which added the vast territory between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River to what he called an empire of liberty. Jefferson's vision for the United States was complicated by slavery, which he thought would eventually die out as enslaved people were diffused into the West. He thus opposed restrictions on the spread of the institution in the nineteenth century.