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Blackout is defined by anterograde amnesia, but a person in the blackout state also maintains consciousness and motor control at high levels of intoxication, which is behaviorally similar to episodes seen in individuals with a history of sleepwalking or related parasomnias. Spectral analysis of resting-state electroencephalograms (EEG) can provide insight into individual differences in baseline neurophysiology which may predict blackout susceptibility in otherwise healthy individuals. The current study investigated potential neurophysiological phenotypes present in the resting-state EEG spectra of individuals with a history of blackout, sleepwalking, or related parasomnias. In Experiment 1, adult females with a history of alcohol-related blackout had reduced resting-state alpha peak power over the primary motor cortex compared to those with no such history, while aperiodic slope over the right primary motor cortex was negatively correlated with lifetime blackout score in males. 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