Fun neurogenealogy facts

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Most represented institutions Nodes 1.  Stanford University 1537 2.  University of California, Los Angeles 1521 3.  Columbia University 1433 4.  Capella University 1422 5.  University of California, San Diego 1336 6.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1256 7.  University of Florida, Gainesville 1240 8.  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1215 9.  University of Wisconsin, Madison 1174 10.  Harvard University 1157 11.  Northwestern University 1137 12.  University of Pennsylvania 1111 13.  University of California, Berkeley 1108 14.  University of Texas at Austin 1090 15.  University of Toronto 1086 16.  New York University 1059 17.  Yale University 1043 18.  University of Washington, Seattle 1023 19.  Johns Hopkins University 1015 20.  Walden University 1004   . . .   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.