Concussion, CTE and Football’s Brain Crisis – with Prof Alan Pearce

Uncomfortably Curious · Jul 5, 2026 · 1h

Concussion isn’t just “getting your bell rung” — it’s a mild traumatic brain injury that disrupts how your brain’s electrical system works, often long after the obvious symptoms settle.Neurophysiologist Professor Alan Pearce has spent more than a decade using non-invasive brain stimulation to study how the brain recovers — or doesn’t — after repeated impacts in Australian Rules football, rugby and other contact sports.Fresh from appearing on ABC’s Four Corners investigation Collision, which revealed a far higher number of former players diagnosed with CTE than previously known, Alan joins…