Fun neurogenealogy facts

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Most represented institutions Nodes 1.  University of California, Los Angeles 392 2.  Stanford University 375 3.  Harvard University 363 4.  Columbia University 339 5.  University of California, San Francisco 319 6.  University of California, Berkeley 316 7.  University of California, San Diego 299 8.  Yale University 295 9.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology 295 10.  University of Pennsylvania 287 11.  University of Michigan 271 12.  Johns Hopkins University 261 13.  University College London 257 14.  University of Washington 253 15.  Duke University 240 16.  Harvard University Medical School 240 17.  New York University 217 18.  Northwestern University 210 19.  McGill University 206 20.  University of Oxford 205   . . .   Log in to see where your school ranks.

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Famous cousins: Ivan Pavlov and Sigmund Freud (through Johannes Muller)

Famous cousins: Donald Hebb and Stephen Kuffler (through Charles Sherrington)

Famous cousins: Max Wertheimer and Alois Alzheimer (through Wilhelm Wundt)

Famous cousins: Franz Nissl and Karl Lashley (2nd cousins through Wilhelm Wundt)

Big families stay big. Children of researchers with many offspring tend to have many offspring of their own.

Our great, great, ... great grandparent. 62% of neuroscientists are direct descendents of Martin of Bazan, who was the grandparent of Dominic de Guzman (St. Dominic), 23 generations before the anatomist/phrenologist Franz Joseph Gall, and 28 generations before the physicist/psychophysicist Hermann von Helmholtz.