Ariel Lyons-Warren is instructor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, as well as a researcher and child neurologist at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital. Her research explores how the brain processes sensory information.
Ariel Lyons-Warren
Instructor
Baylor College of Medicine
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