Fun neurogenealogy facts

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Most represented institutions Nodes 1.  University of California, Los Angeles 1423 2.  Capella University 1421 3.  Stanford University 1360 4.  Columbia University 1268 5.  University of California, San Diego 1214 6.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1129 7.  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1109 8.  Harvard University 1077 9.  Northwestern University 1069 10.  University of California, Berkeley 1031 11.  University of Wisconsin, Madison 1023 12.  University of Pennsylvania 1013 13.  Walden University 1003 14.  New York University 998 15.  University of Texas at Austin 988 16.  University of Toronto 981 17.  University of Florida, Gainesville 980 18.  City University of New York 939 19.  Johns Hopkins University 929 20.  University of Washington, Seattle 924   . . .   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.