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In an occasional column, Journal Watch Psychiatry editors briefly comment on review articles. These annotations were written by Barbara Geller, MD, Peter Roy-Byrne, MD, and Joel Yager, MD.
“Exposomes.” Study of a number of “omes” are well underway, including genomes, proteomes (proteins expressed by genomes), and connectomes (brain connections). This author reviews the potential methods and implementation challenges of measuring the “exposome,” an individual's totality of environmental exposures, which would be useful in determining disease risk and course.1 Three types of devices could be used simultaneously to measure external components (e.g., air pollutants), internal measures (e.g., vital signs), and physical location (using GPS technol…