This week on "Life After Stroke with Christopher Ewing", we chat with Dr. Stuart Glassner, a former social worker with a desire to help people as much as he can, who decided to become a doctor specializing in the brain and stroke. He is the former Neurocritical Care Director at University of Florida - Jacksonville and is now at UCSF -Fresno as Neurocritical Care Attending Intensivist and soon-to-be Fellowship Director. His areas of expertise are in acute stroke management, health disparity and early rehabilitation. He works regularly with an amazing group of providers including other physicians, PAs/NPs, Neuro Nurses, PT/OT, Speech Therapy and Social Workers.

Topics covered in this episode, include:

- What actually happens as soon as we have a stroke and arrive at the hospital?

- Hemorrhagic strokes, they may be more common than we think!

- The various types of hemorrhagic strokes. Yes, there are different kinds of hemorrhagic strokes!

- What is the basal ganglia area in the brain?

- What is the pons area of the brain?

- What is Spasticity?

- Pain and stroke

- Strokes and drug addiction

- Post Stroke Depression. Why do some people feel an increase in depression following a stroke?

- The increase in stroke among young people

- an emotional shout out from Christopher and more.

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