Fun neurogenealogy facts

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Most represented institutions Nodes 1.  University of California, Los Angeles 1440 2.  Capella University 1421 3.  Stanford University 1412 4.  Columbia University 1296 5.  University of California, San Diego 1273 6.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1171 7.  University of Florida, Gainesville 1169 8.  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1126 9.  Harvard University 1092 10.  Northwestern University 1082 11.  University of California, Berkeley 1056 12.  University of Wisconsin, Madison 1050 13.  University of Pennsylvania 1040 14.  University of Texas at Austin 1017 15.  New York University 1006 16.  Walden University 1003 17.  University of Toronto 1000 18.  University of Washington, Seattle 951 19.  City University of New York 945 20.  Johns Hopkins University 944   . . .   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.