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Psychology, Neurology, Sociology, and concepts like biochemistry, psychiatry, nutrition, and blood circulation are often converging into the study of the human brain and how it interacts with its environment. Many people relate concepts of brainology as the brain examining itself and how it functions.
The reason that these subject areas are converging is because there is a lot of overlap, and the individual topics are often a starting point for modern practices on brain studies. Sociology may reveal that someone has an abnormal behavior and that is not necessarily right or wrong, its initially different or not representative of the population.
Psychology and Neurology, may examine why we think certain things are wrong. They harm the person, they harm the group, they change the course of human behavior, they prevent human development and stunt people's growth.
Biochemistry and psychiatry look at these brain functions and study how chemicals affect the neural pathways. Some chemicals may cause the neurons to travel faster inside the brain and others might slow it down, cause it to stop completely, or to reproduce or replicate. Its thought and assumed that each human has more than one neuron inside the brain. But whether that is true or not is not often published, nor is it contemplated very often. Most concepts examine one neuron and how it interacts with its environment although many studies do support the idea of many neurons.
Nutrition and blood circulation can cross paths with the neuron and brain function or it may focus solely on other parts of the body, like the musculoskeletal system. Sensory systems and the nervous systems are most often thought to be auxillary systems of the brain. It allows it to detect input and provide responses. It can also send signals through these systems and process responses from its environment.
Computing has added a new layer of sensory communication to brain function and the environmental interactions it performs or participates in through the computer, monitor, keyboard, or touchscreen. It will be interesting to see how these interfaces interact with the neural system and what the long term affects will be to humans if any. Most people assume that we are being affected by these systems and that we are changing the way we communicate with other lifeforms and with each other.
Studying these systems will be interesting not just for science but in studying concepts in medical privacy, and in pursuing concepts in self examination and a statistical comparative analysis to other humans in a gene group or Earth environment.