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Abstract Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) describes a wide range of symptoms, including difficulty with social interaction and communication skills have a tendency to respond inappropriately in conversation and lack the ability to build relationships as well as unusually repetitive behavior, their siblings have different psychiatric symptoms ranges from externalizing to internalizing symptoms. We aimed from this study to predict the risk factors for developing autism, to study the impact of autism on psychological well-being of their siblings, to study the degree of impairment of mental capacities in autistic children and mental capacities of their siblings, to study specific EEG patterns in autism and their siblings, to study PET scan to autism and their siblings and compare them with normal typically developed children for early diagnosis. This is cross sectional study, was done on 3 groups: group 1: Contains 20 Autistic spectrum disorder child, group 2: Contains 30 autistic children ’s neurotypically developed siblings and group 3: Contains 30 normal control of typically developed child recruited from Pediatric outpatient clinic, Menoufiya University hospital and all groups have been undergone for the followings: 1-Sociodemographic data sheet according to Fahmy and El-Sherbini scale for social classification. 2-Sheet of pregnancy and birth complications. 3-Clinical psychiatric interview including general and medical examination and DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for ASD. 4- Childhood Autism Rating scale (CARS II). |