What Are the Conditions That QEEG Brain Scans Can Help Diagnose and Treat?

The brain is the body’s most complex organ and often, its most misunderstood. When someone struggles with anxiety, focus issues, insomnia, or emotional dysregulation, it’s common to feel stuck or misdiagnosed. At Vaughan Vitality, we use QEEG brain mapping to take the guesswork out of brain health. This non-invasive scan reveals how the brain is functioning in real time, helping to uncover root causes behind symptoms and guide targeted treatments.

But what exactly can a QEEG scan detect? And which conditions can it help treat?

What Is QEEG Brain Mapping?

Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG) is a tool that measures electrical activity in the brain also known as brainwaves. It’s like an EKG for your brain, showing patterns of overactivity, underactivity, and imbalance across different regions.

Unlike traditional imaging (like MRI or CT scans), QEEG doesn’t look at brain structure, it focuses on function. That means we can see how your brain is operating, second by second.

Once the scan is complete, we generate a detailed report that compares your brainwave patterns to those of healthy individuals in your age group. This data helps us understand what’s contributing to symptoms and how to improve brain performance through neurofeedback and functional medicine.

Conditions QEEG Can Help Identify and Address

QEEG is not a diagnostic tool in the conventional medical sense; it doesn’t replace psychological evaluations or bloodwork. But it offers invaluable insight into brain dysregulation associated with many common conditions:

1. ADHD and Focus Issues
   QEEG often reveals excess theta waves (linked to daydreaming) or reduced beta waves (linked to concentration). These patterns are common in individuals with attention challenges and can be addressed through neurofeedback training.
2. Anxiety and Panic Disorders
   Anxiety is frequently tied to excess high-beta activity in areas like the frontal lobes. QEEG helps pinpoint this overactivity, allowing us to create calming, rebalancing protocols.
3. Depression and Low Motivation
   Depression may appear as underactivity in the left frontal lobe, or imbalances between brain hemispheres. Identifying these patterns helps guide brain retraining and functional interventions.
4. Insomnia and Sleep Dysregulation
   Disrupted sleep often shows up as hyperactive brainwaves at night, especially in the sensory cortex or occipital lobe. QEEG makes it easier to customize sleep-focused neurofeedback plans.
5. PTSD and Trauma-Related Dysregulation
   Trauma changes the way the brain responds to stress. QEEG may show excess high-beta activity, overarousal, or disrupted brain connectivity. This insight supports trauma-informed healing.
6. Autism Spectrum and Sensory Processing Disorders
   Children and adults with ASD often exhibit irregular brainwave coherence or excessive slow-wave activity. QEEG provides a map to help support learning, socialization, and emotional regulation.
7. Chronic Fatigue and Brain Fog
   These symptoms are often tied to diffuse slow-wave activity, mitochondrial stress, or poor brain resilience. QEEG helps distinguish whether cognitive fatigue stems from overwork, inflammation, or neural sluggishness.
8. Migraines and Chronic Headaches
   QEEG can identify areas of cortical hyperactivity or sensory overload contributing to migraines, offering new tools for long-term relief.

How QEEG Supports Functional and Integrative Care

The true power of QEEG lies in how it guides treatment. At Vaughan Vitality, we use the scan to personalize neurofeedback sessions and tailor functional medicine protocols. By seeing how the brain is functioning and watching how it improves over time we’re able to offer a more precise, effective healing path.

QEEG doesn’t label you, it empowers you. By revealing what’s really going on inside your brain, it allows us to move beyond symptom management and into true transformation. Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, ADHD, sleep, or mood, brain mapping is the first step toward clarity, balance, and healing.

Your brain is talking. We help you listen.

For deeper insight into cognitive clarity, explore our blog: Decoding Brain Fog: How Functional Medicine and QEEG & Neurofeedback Reveal the Hidden Causes.