Fun neurogenealogy facts

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Most represented institutions Nodes 1.  Capella University 1423 2.  University of California, Los Angeles 1365 3.  Stanford University 1223 4.  Columbia University 1163 5.  University of California, San Diego 1128 6.  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1025 7.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1011 8.  Walden University 1010 9.  Northwestern University 977 10.  Harvard University 973 11.  University of Pennsylvania 963 12.  New York University 956 13.  University of Wisconsin, Madison 948 14.  University of California, Berkeley 946 15.  City University of New York 922 16.  University of Texas at Austin 920 17.  University of Florida, Gainesville 883 18.  University of Toronto 866 19.  University of Southern California 864 20.  University of Washington, Seattle 849   . . .   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.