Fun neurogenealogy facts

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Most represented institutions Nodes 1.  Stanford University 1534 2.  University of California, Los Angeles 1514 3.  Capella University 1423 4.  Columbia University 1419 5.  University of California, San Diego 1329 6.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1248 7.  University of Florida, Gainesville 1244 8.  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1185 9.  University of Wisconsin, Madison 1159 10.  Harvard University 1141 11.  Northwestern University 1131 12.  University of California, Berkeley 1109 13.  University of Pennsylvania 1099 14.  University of Texas at Austin 1081 15.  University of Toronto 1070 16.  New York University 1052 17.  Yale University 1024 18.  University of Washington, Seattle 1018 19.  Walden University 1003 20.  Johns Hopkins University 994   . . .   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.