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 Uncomfortably Curious to dig into what’s really happening in the brain during concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

We talk about the mismatch he’s found between symptom resolution and physiological recovery, why a player  ...