subjects at risk for developing alcoholism as determined by spectral analysis methods are well known (Table 23.1). FHP individuals have shown greater increases than FHN in alpha (Pollock et al., 1983; Cohen et al., 1993a) and greater decreases of fast alpha after alcohol administration (Pollock et al., 1983). Alpha activity has also been positively associated with desire to drink in FHP before and after consumption (Kaplan et al., 1988), and beta power increases are also prominent (Ehlers and Schuckit, 1990).
