Fun neurogenealogy facts

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Most represented institutions Nodes 1.  University of California, Los Angeles 487 2.  Stanford University 424 3.  Harvard University 399 4.  Columbia University 399 5.  University of California, San Francisco 396 6.  University of California, San Diego 363 7.  University of California, Berkeley 356 8.  University of Pennsylvania 356 9.  Yale University 355 10.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology 326 11.  Johns Hopkins University 318 12.  University of Washington 316 13.  University of Michigan 314 14.  University College London 305 15.  Harvard University Medical School 299 16.  Northwestern University 283 17.  Duke University 274 18.  McGill University 262 19.  New York University 261 20.  University of Pittsburgh 252   . . .   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.