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The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) is intended to provide a relatively brief evaluation of key cognitive domains relevant to schizophrenia and related disorders, and was designed to address the following purposes:

	As an outcome measure for clinical trials of cognition-enhancing drugs for schizophrenia
	As an outcome measure for studies of cognitive remediation
	As a measure of cognitive change in repeated testing applications
	As a cognitive reference point for non-intervention studies of schizophrenia and related disorders


	The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Initiative, Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS), was designed to stimulate the development of psychopharmacological agents to improve cognition in schizophrenia. The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) was one deliverable from this Initiative. The selection of tests included in the MCCB involved a broad-based interdisciplinary consensus process that is described in more detail on the MATRICS website (www.matrics.ucla.edu). The committee members involved with this process are listed on the MATRICS website as well.

The MCCB includes ten tests that measure seven cognitive domains.

Speed of processing
   º BACS: Symbol Coding
   º Category Fluency: Animal Naming
   º Trail Making Test: Part A
Attention/vigilance
   º CPT-IP
Working memory
   º WMS®-III: Spatial Span
   º Letter-Number Span
Verbal learning
   º HVLT-R^TM
Visual learning
   º BVMT-R^TM
Reasoning and problem solving
   º NAB®: Mazes
Social cognition
   º MSCEIT^TM: Managing Emotions

The commercial version of the MCCB is currently offered in the following languages:

English
Simplified Chinese
Croatian
German
Hebrew
Hindi
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Marathi
Romanian
Russian
Spanish - Central and South American
Spanish - Spain
Tamil
Telugu

* Translations of the MCCB (commercial

and academic

) are available
for the primary spoken language in the highlighted countries.